{"id":"F2024L00008","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2023-24 Payment No. 7) Determination 2024","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-7-determination-2024","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442234,"registerId":"F2024L00008-fast-fetch-1775957286586","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. 7) Determination 2024","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. 7) Determination 2024\n\nI, Stephen Jones, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, make the following determination.\n\nDated  20 December 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. 7) Determination 2024.\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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 January 2024.\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 | $87,114,199.00 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $48,631,500.00 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $389,195,526.00 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $99,217,627.00 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $59,605,366.00 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $54,260,749.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $18,672,000.00 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $6,889,138.50 |\n| 9 | Total | $763,586,105.50 |\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This legislation performs exactly the function intended by the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009: making determinations of specific payment amounts to states and territories. It is a routine administrative instrument that operates squarely within its statutory authority without expansion beyond the original legislative purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 substantive provisions","No defined terms beyond 'the Act' (which simply references the parent legislation)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references to other complex provisions","Single operative provision (section 5) consisting of a basic table with 8 data rows","No nested structures or interpretive challenges","Essentially a payment schedule with legislative force"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises the Commonwealth to pay $763,586,105.50 to states and territories as the seventh national partnership payment for 2023–24, formally determining each jurisdiction’s share. It unlocks agreed funds for joint projects (health, education, infrastructure), enabling states and territories to deliver services under those agreements and ensuring the legal flow of the money."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not change the statutory scope of national partnership payments; it only specifies the amounts to be paid under the existing authority in the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (see s3 and s5). It does not amend definitions, eligibility, conditions, or program design."},"complexity_factors":["Numeric allocations are explicit and listed in a single table (s5) — low interpretive complexity.","Instrument is made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s3) and the determination relies on subsection 16(1) of that Act (Part 2 note) — authority is external but straightforward.","Commencement is immediate on registration (s2) — fixed timing reduces implementation uncertainty.","Definitions defer to the Act (s4) so interpretive detail depends on existing statute rather than new definitions.","No eligibility rules, conditions, performance measures, or reporting requirements are introduced — minimal administrative burden in the instrument itself.","No delegations or discretionary frameworks included; amounts are fixed rather than contingent — low procedural ambiguity.","Includes both per-jurisdiction amounts and an aggregate total, aiding straightforward reconciliation."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument specifies the exact amounts the Commonwealth will pay to each State and Territory as national partnership payments under subsection 16(1) of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, totaling $763,586,105.50. It takes effect on the day it is registered. \n\nIt makes state and territory treasuries the recipients of those grants and fixes the Commonwealth-directed cash flows; it matters because it determines the timing and size of those fiscal transfers to jurisdictions."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-7-determination-2024","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-7-determination-2024/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-7-determination-2024/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-7-determination-2024/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-7-determination-2024/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-7-determination-2024/documents"}}