{"id":"F2020L00393","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No.166 (April 2020)","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-166-april-2020","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":100920,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2020L00393-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Federal Financial Relations (National Pa","sectionType":"part","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No.166 (April 2020)","content":"# Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No.166 (April 2020)","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.166 (April 2020).","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"Commencement","sectionType":"division","heading":"Commencement","content":"### Commencement\n\n 2. This determination commences on the day on which it is made.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"Determination","sectionType":"division","heading":"Determination","content":"### Determination\n\n 3. 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":3},{"sectionNumber":"Table 1: National Partnership Payments f","sectionType":"division","heading":"Table 1: National Partnership Payments for payment on 7 April 2020","content":"### Table 1: National Partnership Payments for payment on 7 April 2020\n\n```html\n

State

Amount of National Partnership Payments

New South Wales

$56,361,417.00

Victoria

$7,209,941.80

Queensland

$46,795,798.00

Western Australia

$11,117,176.33

South Australia

$2,553,459.00

Tasmania

$10,502,959.00

Australian Capital Territory

$3,373,335.00

Northern Territory

$35,473,598.26

Total

$173,387,684.39

\n```\n\nSchedule 1 to this determination provides further information on these payments.","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"Schedule 1","sectionType":"part","heading":"Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 7 April 2020 ($)","content":"# Schedule 1: Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 7 April 2020 ($)\n\n| | | NSW | VIC | QLD | WA | SA | TAS | ACT | NT | Total |\n| --------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | ------------- | ------------ | ------------- | ------------- | ------------ | ------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------------- |\n| Health | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Health services | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Specialist Dementia Care Program | x | - | - | 360,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 360,000.00 |\n| Indigenous health | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Improving Trachoma Control Services for Indigenous Australians | x | - | - | 286,000.00 | 1,688,000.00 | 1,353,000.00 | - | - | 1,857,000.00 | 5,184,000.00 |\n| Total Health National Partnership payments | | - | - | 646,000.00 | 1,688,000.00 | 1,353,000.00 | - | - | 1,857,000.00 | 5,544,000.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Education | | | | | | | | | | |\n| National School Chaplaincy Program | x | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 383,907.26 | 383,907.26 |\n| Early childhood education - Universal access to early education | x | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,873,335.00 | - | 2,873,335.00 |\n| Total Education National Partnership payments | | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,873,335.00 | 383,907.26 | 3,257,242.26 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Community Services | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Specialist disability services | x | - | - | - | 2,351,333.33 | - | - | - | - | 2,351,333.33 |\n| Women's Safety Package - Technology Trials | x | - | - | - | - | 100,459.00 | - | - | - | 100,459.00 |\n| Total Community Services National Partnership payments | | - | - | - | 2,351,333.33 | 100,459.00 | - | - | - | 2,451,792.33 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Infrastructure | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Infrastructure Investment Program | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Investment Rail | x | - | 5,520,000.00 | - | - | - | 3,602,500.00 | - | - | 9,122,500.00 |\n| Infrastructure Investment Programme - Investment Road | x | 50,780,084.00 | - | 30,000,000.00 | 6,000,000.00 | - | 6,829,745.00 | - | - | 93,609,829.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-Through States | x | 2,093,795.00 | 652,449.00 | 2,146,333.00 | 450,000.00 | - | 70,714.00 | - | - | 5,413,291.00 |\n| Heavy Vehicle Safety - Through Payments | x | 2,400,000.00 | - | 830,010.00 | 227,843.00 | - | - | - | - | 3,457,853.00 |\n| Heavy vehicle safety - to States | x | 800,000.00 | 1,000,000.00 | 2,000,000.00 | 400,000.00 | - | - | - | 1,250,000.00 | 5,450,000.00 |\n| Northern Australia Beef Roads Fund - To States | x | - | - | 5,450,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 5,450,000.00 |\n| Northern Australia Roads Projects - To payments | x | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 31,550,000.00 | 31,550,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| ARF - IIP - Western Sydney Roads | x | 287,538.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 287,538.00 |\n| Total Infrastructure National Partnership payments | | 56,361,417.00 | 7,172,449.00 | 40,426,343.00 | 7,077,843.00 | - | 10,502,959.00 | - | 32,800,000.00 | 154,341,011.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Environment | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Pest and Disease Preparedness and Response Programs | x | - | 37,492.80 | - | - | - | - | - | 432,691.00 | 470,183.80 |\n| Water Development Fund - Feasibility Component | x | - | - | 1,250,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 1,250,000.00 |\n| Water Infrastructure Development Fund - Capital Component | x | - | - | 1,473,455.00 | - | 1,100,000.00 | - | - | - | 2,573,455.00 |\n| Yellow Crazy Ants Control | x | - | - | 3,000,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 3,000,000.00 |\n| Bushfire Wildlife and Habitat Recovery | x | - | - | - | - | - | - | 500,000.00 | - | 500,000.00 |\n| Total Environment National Partnership payments | | - | 37,492.80 | 5,723,455.00 | - | 1,100,000.00 | - | 500,000.00 | 432,691.00 | 7,793,638.80 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total National Partnership Payments | | 56,361,417.00 | 7,209,941.80 | 46,795,798.00 | 11,117,176.33 | 2,553,459.00 | 10,502,959.00 | 3,373,335.00 | 35,473,598.26 | 173,387,684.39 |","sortOrder":5}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":5,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the text supplied, the instrument does not alter the statutory scope of Federal Financial Relations; it specifies amounts and recipients for a single payment date (7 April 2020) and the purposes for those payments (support delivery, facilitate reforms, reward reforms) (see s3, Table 1, Schedule 1). There is no textual indication here that the underlying scope of National Partnership payments has been expanded or narrowed beyond listing program-level allocations."},"complexity_factors":["Multiple recipients and amounts: Payments are allocated to eight jurisdictions with distinct dollar figures per State/Territory (Table 1; Schedule 1).","Sectoral fragmentation: Funds are split across several policy areas (Health; Education; Community Services; Infrastructure; Environment), increasing tracking and reporting needs (Schedule 1).","Line-item granularity: Numerous program-level allocations (e.g. rail, roads, Indigenous health, yellow crazy ants control) require discrete administration and monitoring (Schedule 1 rows).","Legal mechanics: The instrument both commences immediately (s2) and creates specified payment directions under s3, so administrative actors must effect payment on the stated date.","Conditionality and implied performance links: s3 ties payments to supporting delivery, facilitating reforms or rewarding reforms, implying performance conditions or agreement terms to be met (s3; Schedule 1).","Concentrated financial effects: Large concentrated transfers to particular States (e.g. NSW, NT, infrastructure line items) create asymmetric fiscal impacts and monitoring burdens (Table 1 totals).","Intergovernmental implementation: Execution likely requires coordination under National Partnership arrangements and reconciliation against program outcomes (Schedule 1 detail)."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination instructs the Commonwealth to pay $173,387,684.39 to Australia’s States and Territories on 7 April 2020 for specified national partnership projects and reforms. It allocates fixed, program-level grants across health, education, community services, infrastructure and environment so States receive conditional funding to support delivery, facilitate reforms or be rewarded for reforms (see Schedule 1)."},"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":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This determination serves its original purpose exactly as intended: authorising specific National Partnership Payments to states. It is a routine administrative instrument that allocates funds according to pre-existing agreements. The scope has not expanded beyond the straightforward fiscal mechanism it was designed to be."},"complexity_factors":["No defined terms section—language is plain and self-explanatory","Single operative clause (clause 3) with straightforward purpose","No cross-references to other legislation beyond implied reference to Federal Financial Relations Act","Structure is essentially a payment schedule with descriptive headers","No conditional logic, exceptions, or triggers—payments are absolute and specified to the cent","Tabular format makes obligations visually clear rather than textually dense"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination authorises $173.4 million in federal funding to Australia’s eight states and territories, payable 7 April 2020, for specified projects across health, education, community services, infrastructure (the bulk of funding) and environment. It affects state and territory governments directly and Australians who use hospitals, schools, roads and disability services. These are conditional National Partnership Payments: funds must be spent on the agreed purposes."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-166-april-2020","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-166-april-2020/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-166-april-2020/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-166-april-2020/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-166-april-2020/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-166-april-2020/documents"}}