{"id":"F2025L00285","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2024-25 Payment No. 9) Determination 2025","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2024-25-payment-no-9-determination-2025","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442774,"registerId":"F2025L00285-fast-fetch-1775957712946","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. 9) 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. 9) Determination 2025\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated     3 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. 9) 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after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 March 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 | $517,614,570.16 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $227,926,662.61 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $293,828,378.00 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $1,320,276,715.73 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $49,243,480.00 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $8,826,217.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $46,002,637.00 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $28,668,377.36 |\n| 9 | Total | $2,492,387,037.86 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This legislation serves its original narrow purpose exactly as intended. It is one in a series of routine administrative instruments that authorise specific national partnership payments. The scope remains limited to determining payment amounts to states and territories under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, with no expansion into substantive policy matters."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 operative provisions across 2 Parts","No defined terms beyond 'the Act' (which simply references the parent legislation)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references beyond basic authority provisions","Single operative provision (section 5) consisting of a simple table with 8 data rows","No amendments, schedules, or transitional provisions","Purpose is purely administrative: authorising specific payment amounts already determined by government policy"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises the Australian Government to pay about $2.49 billion in national partnership payments to states and territories in March 2025—federal grants that fund shared services and projects (health, education, infrastructure, disaster recovery). Western Australia receives the largest share; the payments are legally required for the Commonwealth to transfer these funds and represent the ninth such determination for 2024–25."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Scope is unchanged from routine determinations under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009: this instrument specifies amounts to be paid to states and territories under subsection 16(1) (see Part 2 Note 1 and section 5) and does not alter recipient categories, conditions or the Act’s legal framework. It only sets payment quantum and timing (Part 2 Note 2)."},"complexity_factors":["Single-purpose schedule: instrument only lists fixed payment amounts by state and a total — see section 5 (table).","Statutory authority: made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (Authority — s.3) and expressly relies on subsection 16(1) of the Act (Part 2 Note 1).","Commencement mechanics: takes effect immediately after registration (s.2), limiting timing ambiguity.","Payment timing: payments are proposed to be made in March 2025 (Part 2 Note 2), creating a short implementation timetable for agencies.","Definitions tied to the Act: expressions adopt meanings from the Act as in force (s.4), so legal effect depends on that parent statute.","Low discretionary content: amounts are fixed by the table (s.5), leaving little administrative discretion over quantum but requiring execution of transfers.","Administrative implementation required: agencies must arrange transfers and record the grants (s.5 and Part 2 Note 2).","Instrument provenance: signed/made by the Assistant Minister (instrument heading and signature block), showing executive decision-maker under delegated authority."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument fixes Commonwealth national partnership payments to each Australian state and territory, listing specific amounts that together total $2,492,387,037.86. Made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 and effective on registration, the determination (proposed to be paid in March 2025) requires the Commonwealth to transfer the listed sums to state and territory governments; agencies must process the payments under the Act."},"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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