{"id":"F2026L00196","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2025-26 Payment No. 9) Determination 2026","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-2026","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":443170,"registerId":"F2026L00196-fast-fetch-1775958076575","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. 9) 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. 9) Determination 2026\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated     3 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. 9) 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after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 March 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 | $263,065,142.00 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $184,703,379.50 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $165,997,201.00 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $99,248,623.18 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $141,327,186.00 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $56,013,887.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $54,138,686.00 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $71,561,965.93 |\n| 9 | Total | $1,036,056,070.61 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"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 determinations of national partnership payment amounts. It has not expanded beyond this narrow, specific purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short instrument (only 5 substantive sections)","No defined terms beyond 'the Act' (which simply references the parent Act)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Single operative provision (section 5) consisting of a simple table with 8 data rows","No cross-references except to the enabling Act (Federal Financial Relations Act 2009)","Purpose is purely administrative: allocating predetermined dollar amounts to specific recipients"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination authorises the Australian Government to pay about $1.036 billion in national partnership payments to the eight states and territories as Commonwealth grants to support agreed state‑delivered programs and projects. It formally allocates funding for 2025–26 as Payment No. 9 in the scheduled Commonwealth–state payments.\n\nThe recipients are New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory; the money supports services like health, education, infrastructure and disaster recovery."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument does not change the statutory scope of national partnership arrangements. It simply determines and allocates specific payment amounts to each State and Territory under subsection 16(1) of the Act and sets the timing for payment (proposed March 2026). It does not introduce new program conditions, eligibility changes, or additional agencies in the text."},"complexity_factors":["Legal cross-reference to Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (instrument made under s.16(1); see Part 2 Note 1 and clause 3).","Numeric precision and itemisation: nine line items with dollar-and-cents amounts, requiring exact payment and accounting.","Commencement mechanics: instrument commences immediately on registration (clause 2(1)), affecting timing of legal effect.","Declared payment timing: a proposed payment date in March 2026 (Part 2 Note 2) imposes an operational deadline on treasury/state finance processes.","Low interpretive ambiguity: the document is a mechanical allocation table rather than a rules-heavy regulatory instrument, limiting legal complexity.","Administrative execution: implementation requires Commonwealth payment transfers and state receipt/reconciliation processes, but no new eligibility decisions are recorded in the text."],"plain_english_summary":"This Determination — made under subsection 16(1) of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 — specifies national partnership payments from the Commonwealth to each State and Territory totalling $1,036,056,070.61. Payments are proposed to be made in March 2026.\n\nIt names the Assistant Minister as maker and commences on registration; it allocates the listed amounts mechanically to state budgets and does not itself create or alter program eligibility or conditions."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-2026","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-2026/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-2026/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-2026/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-2026/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-2026/documents"}}