{"id":"F2025L00894","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2025-26 Payment No. 2) Determination 2025","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-2-determination-2025","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442909,"registerId":"F2025L00894-fast-fetch-1775957820101","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. 2) 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—2025-26 Payment No. 2) Determination 2025\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated     31 July 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—2025-26 Payment No. 2) 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after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 August 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 | $295,947,275.23 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $29,413,695.75 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $131,235,897.47 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $120,124,007.67 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $72,018,574.92 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $26,961,247.07 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $21,595,991.67 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $9,133,929.82 |\n| 9 | Total | $706,430,619.60 |\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 and territories. The scope remains tightly constrained to this single, specific purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 operative sections","No defined terms beyond a single reference to 'the Act'","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references to other legislation beyond the enabling Act","Single substantive provision (section 5) consisting of a simple table of amounts","No subsections with multiple paragraphs or nested structures","Purpose and operation are immediately apparent from reading"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises the Australian Government to pay just over $706 million in national partnership payments to states and territories in August 2025, enabling legally required federal transfers that fund state-delivered services and projects.  \n\nRecipients include NSW, Victoria, Queensland, WA, SA, Tasmania, the ACT and NT; the funding supports agreed national partnership activities (health, education, infrastructure etc.) and is the second such payment for 2025–26."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument does not expand or narrow the statutory scope; it exercises the power under subsection 16(1) of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 to determine specified payment amounts and timing. It merely allocates fixed sums to States/Territories and does not create new conditions, programs or eligibility rules within the text (see Part 2, Note 1 and section 5)."},"complexity_factors":["Legal authority is singular and explicit: instrument is made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (see section 3).","Operational mechanics are simple: a single table lists fixed monetary amounts by State/Territory (see section 5).","Immediate commencement on registration reduces temporal complexity for implementation (see section 2(1)).","Timing is specified but procedural: payment is 'proposed to be made in August 2025' (see Part 2, Note 2), so administrative scheduling is required.","No additional eligibility criteria, conditions, or allocation methodology are set in this instrument; it relies on subsection 16(1) of the Act for purpose and effect (see Part 2, Note 1 and section 5).","Definitions defer to the Act (see section 4), so interpretive complexity depends on the underlying legislation rather than this instrument."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument sets fixed Commonwealth national partnership payment amounts to each Australian state and territory, totalling $706,430,619.60, and proposes those payments be made in August 2025. Made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 and commencing on registration, it affects state/territory treasuries and federal administrators by allocating specific grant sums for distribution under existing Act processes."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-2-determination-2025","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-2-determination-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-2-determination-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-2-determination-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-2-determination-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-2-determination-2025/documents"}}