{"id":"F2026L00399","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2025-26 Payment No. 10) Determination 2026","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-10-determination-2026","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":443233,"registerId":"F2026L00399-fast-fetch-1775958122379","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2025-26 Payment No. 10) Determination 2026","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—2025-26 Payment No. 10) Determination 2026\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated     30 March 2026\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—2025-26 Payment No. 10) Determination 2026.\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after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 April 2026.\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 | $507,165,727.64 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $105,504,890.00 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $423,135,475.00 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $297,652,946.55 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $46,413,457.80 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $36,887,937.05 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,885,420.00 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $19,228,816.72 |\n| 9 | Total | $1,439,874,670.76 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"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. It has not expanded beyond this narrow, technical purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 substantive provisions across 2 Parts","No defined terms beyond 'the Act' (which simply points to 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 basic table with 8 data rows","No amendments, schedules, or transitional provisions","Essentially a payment schedule presented in legislative form"],"plain_english_summary":"Authorises the Commonwealth to pay $1.44 billion in national partnership grants to states and territories in April 2026, specifying each jurisdiction’s payment and implementing existing agreements (no new policy change).\n\nPayments range from $507m to NSW to $3.9m to the ACT (QLD $423m; WA $298m; VIC $105m; SA $46m; TAS $37m; NT $19m). These Commonwealth grants fund state‑delivered services and projects."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument confines itself to determining specific national partnership payment amounts and timing under the existing statutory power (subsection 16(1) of the Act). Nothing in the text indicates an expansion or narrowing of the Act's scope; it implements a payment allocation without creating new obligations or altering recipient coverage (Part 2 note; s5)."},"complexity_factors":["Simple numeric allocation table specifying amounts to nine recipients, including a precise total (s5).","Made under a single statutory power (subsection 16(1) of the Act) — limited legal discretion in this instrument (Part 2 note; s3).","Commencement mechanics are straightforward: instrument operates immediately on registration (Commencement clause).","Cross-references to the Federal Financial Relations Act and Legislation Act for definitions create ordinary interpretive dependency (Definitions; note referencing Legislation Act 2003).","Administrative factor: timing of payment (proposed for April 2026) affects cashflow but not substantive policy design (Part 2 note; s5).","Low regulatory complexity: no new compliance regimes, conditions, or eligibility rules are articulated in the instrument (s5)."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination directs the Commonwealth to pay specified national-partnership amounts to each State and Territory (total $1,439,874,670.76) with payments proposed for April 2026 (Part 2 note; s5). It is made under the Federal Financial Relations Act by the Assistant Minister (s3). \n\nMechanically, the instrument reallocates already-budgeted federal funds to States and Territories; it does not itself create new regulatory duties for private parties. The real-world effect depends on how each State deploys the grant and on administrative payment timing (s5; commencement)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-10-determination-2026","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-10-determination-2026/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-10-determination-2026/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-10-determination-2026/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-10-determination-2026/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-10-determination-2026/documents"}}