{"id":"F2024L00268","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2023-24 Payment No. 9) Determination 2024","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-9-determination-2024","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442303,"registerId":"F2024L00268-fast-fetch-1775957348644","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. 9) 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](image.001.jpeg)\n\nFederal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2023-24 Payment     No. 9) Determination 2024\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated  29 February 2024\n\n \n\nDr Andrew Leigh\n\nAssistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury\n\nParliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer\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. 9) 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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 March 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 | $443,600,712.14 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $265,317,937.91 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $44,289,893.73 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $68,785,217.00 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $42,558,277.00 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $22,566,518.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $905,400.00 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $32,997,431.00 |\n| 9 | Total | $921,021,386.78 |\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"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not change the scope of the underlying program; it merely determines specific dollar payments to States and Territories under subsection 16(1) of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s5, Note 1). It does not add eligibility criteria, new conditions, or alter the Act itself; its effect is limited to specifying amounts and payment timing (Note 2)."},"complexity_factors":["Legal authority is a single statutory hook: instrument made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s3).","Instrument is operational: a table of fixed monetary amounts allocated to each State/Territory (s5).","Commencement is immediate on registration (s2), which is a simple temporal rule.","Payment timing is stated (proposed March 2024 — Note 2), requiring coordination between Commonwealth and States.","No substantive policy conditions, eligibility rules, or new programs are set in the instrument — limits legal complexity.","Fiscal effect spans multiple jurisdictions (8 States/Territories plus total), so financial administration and ledger entries across jurisdictions are required.","References to the Act and definitions are incorporated by reference (s4), creating dependency on the parent statute for interpretation."],"plain_english_summary":"This Determination, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s3), fixes specific national partnership payment amounts to each State and Territory for 2023–24 Payment No. 9, totalling $921,021,386.78 (s5). Payments are proposed to be made in March 2024 (Note 2). It requires the Commonwealth to grant those amounts to the listed States under subsection 16(1) of the Act, affecting State and Territory budgets and triggering administrative payment processes."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs exactly the function intended by the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009: making determinations for specific National Partnership Payments. It has not expanded beyond this narrow administrative purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short instrument: only 5 operative sections","No defined terms beyond 'the Act' (which simply references the parent Act)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references beyond basic authority provisions","Single operative provision (section 5) consisting of a simple table with 8 data rows","No amendments, schedules, or explanatory material embedded in the text","Purpose is purely administrative: authorising specific payment amounts already agreed through other processes"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises the Australian Government to pay just over $921 million to state and territory governments as the 9th scheduled National Partnership Payments for 2023–24. It funds agreed joint projects and services (hospitals, schools, infrastructure, recovery) and primarily benefits states such as New South Wales and Victoria. It is the legal mechanism that permits the federal transfers and specifies each jurisdiction’s entitlement, ensuring the payments can lawfully be made."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-9-determination-2024","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-9-determination-2024/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-9-determination-2024/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-9-determination-2024/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-9-determination-2024/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2023-24-payment-no-9-determination-2024/documents"}}