{"id":"F2025L00553","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2024-25 Payment No. 11) Determination 2025","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-11-determination-2025","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442828,"registerId":"F2025L00553-fast-fetch-1775957752302","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. 11) 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 of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nFederal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2024-25 Payment No. 11) Determination 2025\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated     1 May 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. 11) 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after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 May 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 | $800,033,189.68 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $200,781,290.67 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $385,469,884.13 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $485,221,658.53 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $398,290,063.24 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $18,677,746.09 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $9,579,977.55 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $67,540,940.70 |\n| 9 | Total | $2,365,594,750.59 |\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 intended purpose: to make a specific determination of national partnership payment amounts under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009. It has not expanded beyond this narrow, technical function."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 substantive provisions across 2 Parts","No defined terms beyond a single reference to 'the Act'","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references to other legislation beyond the empowering Act","Single operative provision (section 5) consisting of a simple table with 8 data rows","No subsections with multiple paragraphs or nested structures","Purpose is purely administrative: authorising specific payment amounts already determined by policy process"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises the Australian Government to pay just over $2.3 billion in national partnership payments to all states and territories in May 2025. It simply enables Treasury to transfer earmarked federal grants that help fund shared services and projects (health, education, infrastructure), is the 11th such payment for 2024–25, and operates under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009—no policy change, just the legal authority to make the payments."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This determination does not change the scope or objects of the underlying national partnership arrangements. It simply allocates specific monetary amounts to States for Payment No. 11 under the Federal Financial Relations Act (see Part 2, s5 and Note 1). It does not amend eligibility, program design, or the Act itself (ss2–4)."},"complexity_factors":["Single, straightforward legal purpose: specifies amounts to be paid (Part 2, s5).","Minimal textual content: one table of per‑state figures and a total.","Low discretion: made under a defined statutory power (subsection 16(1) of the Act; Note 1).","Formal commencement and definition clauses but no operative policy changes (ss1–4).","No new obligations, conditions, or procedural rules imposed on recipients.","Administrative dependency on payment timing (proposed May 2025) but no complex timing rules (Note 2)."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument sets the Commonwealth’s national partnership payment amounts for 2024–25 (Payment No. 11), listing the exact sums to be paid to each State and the total proposed for payment in May 2025 (Part 2, s5). Made under the Federal Financial Relations Act by the Assistant Minister, it records who will receive funding and how much; it does not itself change program rules or eligibility — it only fixes amounts and the timing of the proposed payments (ss2–4, Note 2)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-11-determination-2025","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-11-determination-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-11-determination-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-11-determination-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-11-determination-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-11-determination-2025/documents"}}