Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2025-26 Payment No. 7) Determination 2026

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Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2025-26 Payment No. 7) Determination 2026

I, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.

Dated     15 January 2026

 

Dr Andrew Leigh Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury

 

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name 

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

Part 2—Determination of general purpose financial assistance 2

5  Determination of general purpose financial assistance

 

Part 1—Preliminary

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2025-26 Payment No. 7) Determination 2026.

2  Commencement

 (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.

 

• Commencement information
• Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
• Provisions Commencement Date/Details
• 1. The whole of this instrument Immediately after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

 (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.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.

4  Definitions

Note: 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.

  In this instrument:

the Act means the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.

Part 2—Determination of general purpose financial assistance

 

Note 1: A determination in this Part is made under subsection 9(1) of the Act.

Note 2: A payment of the amounts determined in this Part is proposed to be made in January 2026.

5  Determination of general purpose financial assistance

  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 general purpose financial assistance to that State.