{"id":"F2017L01510","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 126 (October 2017)","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-126-october-2017","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":144272,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2017L01510-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Federal Financial Relations (National Pa","sectionType":"part","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 126 (october 2017)","content":"# Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 126 (october 2017)","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"Name of determination","sectionType":"division","heading":"Name of determination","content":"### Name of determination\n\n This determination is the Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 126 (October 2017).","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"Commencement","sectionType":"division","heading":"Commencement","content":"### Commencement\n\n 2. This determination is taken to have commenced on 4 October 2017.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"Revocation of previous determination","sectionType":"division","heading":"Revocation of previous determination","content":"### Revocation of previous determination\n\n 3. The Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 125 (October 2017) is revoked.","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"Determination","sectionType":"division","heading":"Determination","content":"### Determination\n\n 4. The amounts specified in the following table are to be paid to the States specified in that table for the purpose of making a grant of financial assistance to:\n (a) support the delivery by the States of specified outputs or projects specified in Schedule 1;\n (b) facilitate the reforms by the States specified in Schedule 1; or\n (c) reward the States for the nationally significant reforms specified in \n Schedule 1.","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"Table: National Partnership Payments for","sectionType":"division","heading":"Table: National Partnership Payments for payment on 9 October 2017","content":"### Table: National Partnership Payments for payment on 9 October 2017\n\n ![](image.001.png)\n\n 5. Schedule 1 to this determination provides further information on these payments.","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"SChedule 1","sectionType":"part","heading":null,"content":"# SChedule 1\n\n## Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 9 October 2017 ($)\n\n| | | NSW | VIC | QLD | WA | SA | TAS | ACT | NT | Total |\n| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | ------------- | ------------ | ------------ | ------------- | ------------ | ------------ | ---------- | ---------- | ------------- |\n| Health | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Health infrastructure | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Health Infrastructure Projects | x | - | - | - | - | - | 9,000,000.00 | - | - | 9,000,000.00 |\n| Health services | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Health care grants for the Torres Strait | x | - | - | 4,653,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 4,653,000.00 |\n| Indigenous health | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Torres Strait Health Protection Strategy - Saibai Island Health Clinic | x | - | - | 1,120,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 1,120,000.00 |\n| Other health payments | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Essential vaccines | x | 456.49 | 107.11 | 424.88 | 194.51 | 82.48 | 53.84 | 14.22 | 444,038.35 | 445,371.88 |\n| Total Health National Partnership payments | | 456.49 | 107.11 | 5,773,424.88 | 194.51 | 82.48 | 9,000,053.84 | 14.22 | 444,038.35 | 15,218,371.88 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Community Services | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Home and community care | x | - | - | - | 15,862,324.62 | - | - | - | - | 15,862,324.62 |\n| Specialist disability services | x | 12,813,000.00 | 6,168,000.00 | 3,653,000.00 | - | 2,696,000.00 | 988,000.00 | - | 507,000.00 | 26,825,000.00 |\n| Transition to NDIS in WA | x | - | - | - | 2,947,200.00 | - | - | - | - | 2,947,200.00 |\n| Total Community Services National Partnership payments | | 12,813,000.00 | 6,168,000.00 | 3,653,000.00 | 18,809,524.62 | 2,696,000.00 | 988,000.00 | - | 507,000.00 | 45,634,524.62 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Affordable Housing | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Homelessness | x | 10,004,000.00 | 1,899,000.00 | 2,392,000.00 | 4,988,000.00 | 739,000.00 | 233,000.00 | 504,000.00 | 443,000.00 | 21,202,000.00 |\n| Total Affordable Housing National Partnership payments | | 10,004,000.00 | 1,899,000.00 | 2,392,000.00 | 4,988,000.00 | 739,000.00 | 233,000.00 | 504,000.00 | 443,000.00 | 21,202,000.00 |\n\n| Infrastructure | | | | | | | | | | |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ---------- | ------------ | -------------- |\n| Infrastructure Investment Program | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Investment Rail | x | - | - | 3,000,000.00 | - | - | 3,250,000.00 | - | - | 6,250,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Investment Programme - Investment Road | x | 25,988,000.00 | 15,090,000.00 | 79,990,000.00 | - | 7,003,750.00 | 2,369,492.00 | - | - | 130,441,242.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-Through States | x | 532,898.00 | - | - | - | 712,766.00 | 395,525.00 | - | - | 1,641,189.00 |\n| Heavy Vehicle Safety - Through Payments | x | 1,000,000.00 | 30,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,030,000.00 |\n| Heavy vehicle safety - to States | x | - | - | - | 170,000.00 | 27,900.00 | - | - | - | 197,900.00 |\n| Total Infrastructure National Partnership payments | | 27,520,898.00 | 15,120,000.00 | 82,990,000.00 | 170,000.00 | 7,744,416.00 | 6,015,017.00 | - | - | 139,560,331.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Environment | | | | | | | | | | |\n| SA River Murray Sustainability Program-Irrigation Industry Assistance Component | x | - | - | - | - | 8,500,000.00 | - | - | - | 8,500,000.00 |\n| Water for the Future - Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure | x | - | - | 2,156,589.77 | - | - | - | - | - | 2,156,589.77 |\n| Total Environment National Partnership payments | | - | - | 2,156,589.77 | - | 8,500,000.00 | - | - | - | 10,656,589.77 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Contingent Payments | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Natural disaster relief | x | 101,675,795.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 101,675,795.00 |\n| Total Contingent Payments National Partnership payments | | 101,675,795.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 101,675,795.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total National Partnership Payments | | 152,014,149.49 | 23,187,107.11 | 96,965,014.65 | 23,967,719.13 | 19,679,498.48 | 16,236,070.84 | 504,014.22 | 1,394,038.35 | 333,947,612.27 |","sortOrder":6},{"sectionNumber":"Amounts of National Partnership Payments","sectionType":"part","heading":"Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 9 October 2017 ($)","content":"## Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 9 October 2017 ($)\n\n| | | NSW | VIC | QLD | WA | SA | TAS | ACT | NT | Total |\n| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | ------------- | ------------ | ------------ | ------------- | ------------ | ------------ | ---------- | ---------- | ------------- |\n| Health | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Health infrastructure | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Health Infrastructure Projects | x | - | - | - | - | - | 9,000,000.00 | - | - | 9,000,000.00 |\n| Health services | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Health care grants for the Torres Strait | x | - | - | 4,653,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 4,653,000.00 |\n| Indigenous health | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Torres Strait Health Protection Strategy - Saibai Island Health Clinic | x | - | - | 1,120,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 1,120,000.00 |\n| Other health payments | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Essential vaccines | x | 456.49 | 107.11 | 424.88 | 194.51 | 82.48 | 53.84 | 14.22 | 444,038.35 | 445,371.88 |\n| Total Health National Partnership payments | | 456.49 | 107.11 | 5,773,424.88 | 194.51 | 82.48 | 9,000,053.84 | 14.22 | 444,038.35 | 15,218,371.88 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Community Services | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Home and community care | x | - | - | - | 15,862,324.62 | - | - | - | - | 15,862,324.62 |\n| Specialist disability services | x | 12,813,000.00 | 6,168,000.00 | 3,653,000.00 | - | 2,696,000.00 | 988,000.00 | - | 507,000.00 | 26,825,000.00 |\n| Transition to NDIS in WA | x | - | - | - | 2,947,200.00 | - | - | - | - | 2,947,200.00 |\n| Total Community Services National Partnership payments | | 12,813,000.00 | 6,168,000.00 | 3,653,000.00 | 18,809,524.62 | 2,696,000.00 | 988,000.00 | - | 507,000.00 | 45,634,524.62 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Affordable Housing | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Homelessness | x | 10,004,000.00 | 1,899,000.00 | 2,392,000.00 | 4,988,000.00 | 739,000.00 | 233,000.00 | 504,000.00 | 443,000.00 | 21,202,000.00 |\n| Total Affordable Housing National Partnership payments | | 10,004,000.00 | 1,899,000.00 | 2,392,000.00 | 4,988,000.00 | 739,000.00 | 233,000.00 | 504,000.00 | 443,000.00 | 21,202,000.00 |\n\n| Infrastructure | | | | | | | | | | |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ---------- | ------------ | -------------- |\n| Infrastructure Investment Program | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Investment Rail | x | - | - | 3,000,000.00 | - | - | 3,250,000.00 | - | - | 6,250,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Investment Programme - Investment Road | x | 25,988,000.00 | 15,090,000.00 | 79,990,000.00 | - | 7,003,750.00 | 2,369,492.00 | - | - | 130,441,242.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-Through States | x | 532,898.00 | - | - | - | 712,766.00 | 395,525.00 | - | - | 1,641,189.00 |\n| Heavy Vehicle Safety - Through Payments | x | 1,000,000.00 | 30,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,030,000.00 |\n| Heavy vehicle safety - to States | x | - | - | - | 170,000.00 | 27,900.00 | - | - | - | 197,900.00 |\n| Total Infrastructure National Partnership payments | | 27,520,898.00 | 15,120,000.00 | 82,990,000.00 | 170,000.00 | 7,744,416.00 | 6,015,017.00 | - | - | 139,560,331.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Environment | | | | | | | | | | |\n| SA River Murray Sustainability Program-Irrigation Industry Assistance Component | x | - | - | - | - | 8,500,000.00 | - | - | - | 8,500,000.00 |\n| Water for the Future - Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure | x | - | - | 2,156,589.77 | - | - | - | - | - | 2,156,589.77 |\n| Total Environment National Partnership payments | | - | - | 2,156,589.77 | - | 8,500,000.00 | - | - | - | 10,656,589.77 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Contingent Payments | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Natural disaster relief | x | 101,675,795.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 101,675,795.00 |\n| Total Contingent Payments National Partnership payments | | 101,675,795.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 101,675,795.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total National Partnership Payments | | 152,014,149.49 | 23,187,107.11 | 96,965,014.65 | 23,967,719.13 | 19,679,498.48 | 16,236,070.84 | 504,014.22 | 1,394,038.35 | 333,947,612.27 |","sortOrder":7}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. 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It allocates over $333 million in federal money to be paid on 9 October 2017 across six main areas: Health, Community Services, Affordable Housing, Infrastructure, Environment, and Natural Disaster Relief. The money comes with conditions - states must use it for specific projects like hospital infrastructure in Tasmania, disability services, road and rail upgrades, homelessness support, and flood recovery in NSW. The determination replaces an earlier one (No. 125) and backdates its effect to 4 October 2017."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"Section 3 expressly revokes Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No.125 and section 4 together with Schedule 1 sets a new schedule of payments and purposes for 9 October 2017. Textually, the instrument replaces the earlier determination and so changes the operative payment amounts and allocations."},"complexity_factors":["Numeric-detail heavy Schedule 1 with many line items and per‑state amounts (large table of allocations).","Multiple policy categories (health, community services, housing, infrastructure, environment, contingent payments) requiring category-specific administration.","Revocation and replacement of an earlier instrument (cl.3), requiring tracking of changes between determinations.","Fixed payment date (payments on 9 October 2017) and a defined commencement date (cl.2) impose tight timing for execution.","Contingent payments (natural disaster relief) introduce conditionality and potential triggers for payment.","Clause 4 ties payments to specified outputs, reforms or rewards, creating compliance and reporting expectations for States."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument (commencing 4 October 2017, cl.2) revokes Determination No.125 (cl.3) and authorises Commonwealth payments to States on 9 October 2017. Clause 4 and Schedule 1 list the dollar amounts by category and jurisdiction (health, community services, housing, infrastructure, environment, contingent payments) to fund specified outputs, facilitate reforms, or reward agreed reforms. It therefore reallocates labelled Commonwealth funding to State programs and budgets."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-126-october-2017","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-126-october-2017/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-126-october-2017/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-126-october-2017/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-126-october-2017/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-126-october-2017/documents"}}