{"id":"F2025L00080","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2024-25 Payment No. 8) Determination 2025","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-8-determination-2025","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442720,"registerId":"F2025L00080-fast-fetch-1775957676904","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. 8) 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. 8) Determination 2025\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated     3 February 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. 8) 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after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 February 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 | $421,086,413.00 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $231,590,661.78 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $192,398,560.53 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $639,028,979.00 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $225,248,961.15 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $37,266,404.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $21,060,732.90 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $6,924,409.00 |\n| 9 | Total | $1,774,605,121.36 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"No change to the statutory scope is evident. The instrument does not create new powers or alter the Federal Financial Relations Act; it merely specifies the amounts to be paid to named States and Territories and the commencement timing (see cl 3 and s5). Any conditions, reporting requirements or implementation details are expected to be handled in separate funding agreements not contained in this instrument."},"complexity_factors":["Operative effect is mainly a single numeric table allocating funds by State and Territory (s5)","Made under statutory authority in the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (cl 3 and note to Part 2 referencing subsection 16(1))","Immediate commencement on registration (cl 2 commencement table) — few transitional rules","Limited definitions and no substantive policy or procedural detail in the instrument (cl 4)","Implementation and compliance complexity likely sits outside the instrument in separate funding agreements and administrative arrangements not set out here","Precise monetary values require routine financial controls and payment processing"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument sets specific Commonwealth national partnership payment amounts to each State and Territory for 2024–25 (total $1,774,605,121.36) and takes effect on registration. It is made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.\n\nThe Assistant Minister issues the determinations (note to s5: subsection 16(1)). The Commonwealth will pay the named States and Territories as grants; payments may be subject to conditions in the underlying funding agreements."},"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 specific determinations of national partnership 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) containing a simple table of amounts","No amendments, schedules, or transitional provisions","Straightforward administrative instrument performing a routine function under clear statutory authority"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises $1,774,605,121.36 in national partnership payments to Australia’s states and territories, to be paid in February 2025. \n\nIt fixes each jurisdiction’s share (largest to Western Australia) so federally funded services and projects—hospitals, schools, infrastructure and disaster recovery—can lawfully be paid; the determination was made by Dr Andrew Leigh under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. 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