{"id":"F2025L00760","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2024-25 Payment No. 13) Determination 2025","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-13-determination-2025","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442872,"registerId":"F2025L00760-fast-fetch-1775957796676","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. 13) 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. 13) Determination 2025\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated   26  June 2025\n\n \n\nDr Andrew Leigh  Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury\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. 13) 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after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 June 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 | $193,593,495.25 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $166,793,970.00 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $245,252,829.55 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $1,046,106,765.93 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $165,859,480.06 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $35,567,885.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $1,687,600.00 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $30,814,960.22 |\n| 9 | Total | $1,885,676,986.01 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"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 has not expanded beyond this narrow, technical purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 substantive 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 operative provision (section 5) consisting of a simple table of amounts","No subsections with multiple paragraphs or nested structures","Purpose and operation immediately obvious from reading"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination authorises the Commonwealth to pay about $1.88 billion in national partnership payments to states and territories in June 2025, formally triggering those grants under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009. \n\nIt funds state‑delivered projects and services; Western Australia receives over half the total, indicating the payment likely relates to a WA‑focused agreement. This is Payment No. 13 for 2024–25."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This determination does not change the substantive scope of any national partnership program; it only allocates specific payment amounts to States/Territories under subsection 16(1) of the Act and schedules the payment timing. No new conditions or program designs are introduced in this instrument."},"complexity_factors":["Straightforward statutory form: instrument made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (see 'Authority' and Note 1 referring to subsection 16(1)).","Single operational task: fixes dollar amounts in a table (Section 5) for each State/Territory and a total.","Fixed timing: payment is proposed for June 2025 (Note 2 / Commencement table).","Low regulatory change: no new program rules, conditions, or novel legal tests included.","Administrative requirements implied (payment, accounting/acquittal) but not elaborated in this instrument.","Precision of amounts (cents-level) requires accurate financial processing and ledger entries for nine recipients."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, sets the Commonwealth’s national-partnership payments to each State and Territory and fixes a total of $1,885,676,986.01, with payment proposed in June 2025. It moves specified cash from the Commonwealth to State and Territory budgets; the Assistant Minister formally determines the amounts and States receive the funds to deliver existing joint programs. The cost is borne by the Commonwealth; administrative compliance is limited to standard payment and acquittal processes."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. 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