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Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 123 (August 2017)

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This determination directs payment of specified amounts totalling $127,732,090.90 to Australian States for payment on 7 August 2017. Funds are allocated by program and State (Health, Education, Community Services, Environment, Affordable Housing and Other) to support delivery of listed outputs, facilitate specified reforms or reward nationally significant reforms set out in Schedule 1. It affects State budgets and Commonwealth cash flows: the Commonwealth makes the payments and the States receive grants to implement the listed projects and reforms.

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What it does

This Determination, titled Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 123 (August 2017), fixes a set of Commonwealth payments to the States to be made on 7 August 2017. Clause 2 makes the Determination effective on the day it is made. Clause 3 prescribes the legal effect: the amounts specified in the table in the Determination are to be paid to the States listed for one or more of three purposes, described in cl 3(a)-(c.1): to support delivery by the States of the specified outputs or projects listed in Schedule 1, to facilitate the reforms by the States specified in Schedule 1, or to reward the States for the nationally significant reforms specified in Schedule 1.

Mechanically, the Determination establishes a single payment date (payment on 7 August 2017) and a set of fixed, itemised amounts by State. The table at cl 3 (and reproduced in Schedule 1) lists the total National Partnership Payments per State as follows: New South Wales $32,843,171.43, Victoria $17,923,169.27, Queensland $20,240,851.84, Western Australia $39,230,780.30, South Australia $5,158,046.93, Tasmania $10,196,846.12, Australian Capital Territory $546,225.01, Northern Territory $1,593,000.00, with a total of $127,732,090.90. Schedule 1 then breaks those totals down by program category and specific initiatives, showing how each State’s allocation is to be applied across Health, Education, Community Services, Affordable Housing, Environment and Other payments. The schedule records programme-level totals (for example, Total Health National Partnership payments $38,024,626.66; Total Community Services National Partnership payments $64,303,645.05; Total Environment National Partnership payments $14,385,819.19) and the overall Total National Partnership Payments $127,732,090.90.

The Determination is an instrument that commits the Commonwealth to transfer the listed funds to the named States for the named purposes on the stated payment date. It does not, on its face, include detailed conditions, reporting obligations, or timing instructions for how States must expend the funds beyond the program descriptions in Schedule 1. The operative legal mechanism in the text is the specification of amounts and purposes, and the immediate commencement provision at cl 2 that makes the Determination effective on its making.

Current sections

Direct links to the current provisions in Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 123 (August 2017).

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