{"id":"F2025L00479","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2024-25 Payment No. 10) Determination 2025","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-10-determination-2025","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442806,"registerId":"F2025L00479-fast-fetch-1775957741415","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2024-25 Payment No. 10) Determination 2025","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nFederal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2024-25 Payment No. 10) Determination 2025\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated   31 March 2025\n\n \n\nDr Andrew Leigh  Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury  Parliamentary 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\n \n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2024-25 Payment No. 10) Determination 2025.\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 Immediately after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 April 2025.\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 | $942,813,881.05 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $243,350,155.80 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $727,017,369.00 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $199,949,579.00 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $154,811,545.80 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $43,309,243.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $7,784,707.50 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $45,929,885.25 |\n| 9 | Total | $2,364,966,366.40 |\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":2,"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 payment rounds. It has not expanded beyond this narrow administrative purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short instrument: only 5 substantive provisions across 2 Parts","Only 1 defined term ('the Act') in the interpretation section","Single operative provision (section 5) containing a straightforward payment table","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references beyond basic authority citations","Mechanical administrative instrument implementing pre-negotiated funding agreements"],"plain_english_summary":"This ministerial determination authorises $2.36 billion in national partnership payments to Australia's eight states and territories to be paid in April 2025. These are conditional federal grants for agreed state responsibilities (e.g. health, education, infrastructure) and are the legal instrument that enables the transfers. It’s the 10th payment round for 2024–25; New South Wales and Queensland receive the largest shares while the ACT receives the smallest in this round."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument solely determines specified payment amounts to States and Territories for 2024–25 and sets commencement and authority. The text contains no provision expanding, narrowing or amending the underlying policy scope; it does not indicate any change from the instrument’s original purpose (see ss2–5)."},"complexity_factors":["Single, short instrument with one operative table of fixed payment amounts (s5).","Clear legal authority cited: made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s3).","Immediate commencement on registration reduces temporal complexity (s2).","Numeric precision and multiple line items across jurisdictions increase clerical/administrative detail but not legal complexity (s5 table).","No conditions, performance measures, or procedural rules included—limited discretion required to implement."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument fixes the Commonwealth’s national partnership payment amounts to each State and Territory for 2024–25 (Payment No. 10), specifying precise dollar sums to be paid in April 2025 under subsection 16(1) of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (see s5). \n\nIt affects State and Territory governments as recipients and the Commonwealth as payer; it matters because it allocates a total of $2,364,966,366.40 and commences immediately on registration (see ss2–5)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-10-determination-2025","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-10-determination-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-10-determination-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-10-determination-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-10-determination-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-10-determination-2025/documents"}}