{"id":"F2023L00964","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2023-24 Payment No. 1) Determination 2023","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-1-determination-2023","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442002,"registerId":"F2023L00964-fast-fetch-1775957139785","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2023-24 Payment No. 1) Determination 2023","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\nFederal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2023-24 Payment No. 1) Determination 2023\n\nI, Stephen Jones, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, make the following determination.\n\nDated 3 July 2023\n\n \n\nStephen Jones\n\nAssistant Treasurer\n\nMinister for Financial Services\n\n \n\n\n\n\nContents\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n1  Name \n\n2  Commencement\n\n3  Authority\n\n4  Definitions\n\nPart 2—Determination of national partnership payments 2\n\n5  Determination of national partnership payments\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2023-24 Payment No. 1) Determination 2023.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.\n\n4  Definitions\n\nNote: Paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003 has the effect that expressions have the same meaning in this instrument as in the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 as in force from time to time.\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nthe Act means the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.\n\nPart 2—Determination of national partnership payments\n\n \n\nNote 1: A determination in this Part is made under subsection 16(1) of the Act.\n\nNote 2: A payment of the amounts determined in this Part is proposed to be made in July 2023.\n\n5  Determination of national partnership payments\n\n  Each item of the following table specifies an amount to be paid to the State mentioned in that item for the purpose of making a grant of financial assistance to that State as specified in subsection 16(1) of the Act.\n\n \n\n| Item | State | Determined amount of national partnership payments |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | New South Wales | $71,137,830.00 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $51,286,830.00 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $56,080,330.00 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $31,322,330.00 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $21,086,783.00 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $8,872,467.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $5,528,966.00 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $50,364,967.00 |\n| 9 | Total | $295,680,503.00 |\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This legislation serves exactly its original purpose: to make a specific determination of national partnership payment amounts for 2023-24. It has not expanded beyond the straightforward administrative function of setting out payment amounts under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 operative provisions","No defined terms beyond 'the Act' (which simply references the parent Act)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references to other legislation beyond the enabling Act","Single purpose: a table of dollar amounts with no substantive rules or requirements","No interpretation section with bespoke definitions","Straightforward tabular format for the actual payment determinations"],"plain_english_summary":"This law authorises the Australian Government to pay about $296 million in national partnership payments to the states and territories in July 2023, formally determining the specific grant amounts. These are Commonwealth grants of financial assistance that fund state-delivered services and projects (e.g., hospitals, schools, infrastructure, disaster recovery), making the promised money legally available under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not change the statutory scope of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009. It implements a one-off determination of payment amounts to States and Territories (section 5) and relies on the Act for definitions (section 4); it does not alter policy scope, eligibility rules or the underlying legislative framework."},"complexity_factors":["Statutory authority is clear and singular (Authority: section 3) — made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.","Commencement mechanics are simple: the whole instrument commences on registration (section 2).","Definitions adopt meanings from the Act (section 4), creating dependency on external statutory definitions.","Payment determination is explicit and tabulated with fixed amounts by jurisdiction (section 5 and Part 2 notes).","Timing note indicates payments are proposed for July 2023 (Part 2, Note 2), creating a clear administrative deadline.","No eligibility criteria, conditions, or allocation formulas are specified in this instrument, reducing legal complexity but increasing reliance on associated agreements or the Act for substantive terms.","Minimal ministerial or bureaucratic discretion within the instrument — amounts and recipients are fixed."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument instructs the Commonwealth to pay specific national partnership amounts to each State and Territory, totalling $295,680,503, with payments proposed in July 2023. It operates under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 to make grants of financial assistance to State and Territory governments. The measure changes only payment allocation and timing — not policy criteria — so it primarily affects budgets, cash flows and administrative compliance for the Commonwealth and the recipient jurisdictions."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-1-determination-2023","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-1-determination-2023/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-1-determination-2023/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-1-determination-2023/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-1-determination-2023/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-1-determination-2023/documents"}}