{"id":"F2024L01723","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2024-25 Payment No. 7) Determination 2024","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-7-determination-2024","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442694,"registerId":"F2024L01723-fast-fetch-1775957645554","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. 7) Determination 2024","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. 7) Determination 2024\n\nI, Stephen Jones, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, make the following determination.\n\nDated     18 December 2024\n\n \n\nStephen Jones  Assistant Treasurer  Minister 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\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. 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 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after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 January 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 | $636,942,489.75 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $28,532,483.00 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $463,366,186.61 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $175,283,785.85 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $78,459,566.52 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $16,874,951.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $2,025,000.00 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $27,872,206.25 |\n| 9 | Total | $1,429,356,668.98 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not change the statutory scope of federal financial relations. It implements subsection 16(1) by specifying recipients and amounts for a single scheduled national partnership payment (see s5 and s3) rather than expanding or narrowing legal powers or introducing new policy obligations."},"complexity_factors":["Single-purpose schedule listing fixed dollar amounts to nine jurisdictions (low structural complexity)","Legal authority is a simple statutory determination under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s3 and s5)","Commencement is immediate on registration (procedural clarity)","Relies on definitions and delegation in the Act rather than creating new legal categories (low interpretive burden)","Payment timing is specified only as 'proposed' January 2025 (administrative scheduling, not conditional complexity)","Contains precise monetary figures (requires accurate financial processing but not legal complexity)"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s3), fixes the exact national partnership grant amounts to be paid to each State and Territory for Payment No.7 of 2024–25 and indicates the payment is proposed for January 2025 (s5, Note 2). It affects State and Territory budgets as recipients; the Commonwealth (acting by the Assistant Treasurer) decides the amounts listed and the instrument’s sole mechanical effect is to authorise those transfers."},"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 specific determinations of payment amounts to states. 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 with 8 data rows","No amendments, schedules, or explanatory material embedded in the text"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises $1.43 billion in national partnership payments from the Commonwealth to Australia’s states and territories, funding state-delivered services and projects (hospitals, schools, infrastructure, disaster recovery). It mostly benefits New South Wales and Queensland, with all jurisdictions receiving specified shares.\n\nThe payment is scheduled for January 2025 and is made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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