Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination 2009 No. 8 (September)

I, LINDSAY TANNER, Acting Treasurer, make this Determination under section 16 of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.

 

                                                                 
LINDSAY TANNER
Dated: 3 September 2009

Part 1 — preliminary
Name of Determination
1.             This determination is the Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership payments) Determination 2009 No. 8 (September).
Commencement
2.             This determination commences on the day on which this determination is made.
Definitions
3.             The following definitions are used throughout this determination:
Act means the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.
COAG Reform Fund means the COAG Reform Fund established by section 5 of the COAG Reform Fund Act 2008.
Drawing right means a drawing right issued under section 27 of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.
Intergovernmental Agreement means the Intergovernmental Agreement on Federal Financial Relations, which provides an overarching framework for financial transfers between the Commonwealth and the States and related collaboration on policy development and service delivery.
State includes the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
Part 2 — National Partnership Payments
Determination
4.             In accordance with subsection 16(1) of the Act, the amounts specified in Table 1 are to be paid to the States specified in that table on 7 September 2009 for the purpose of making a grant of financial assistance to:
(a)           support the delivery by the States of specified outputs or projects;
(b)          facilitate reforms by the States; or
(c)           reward the States for nationally significant reforms.
Table 1: National Partnership payments for payment on 8 September 2009
 
5.             Schedule 1 to this determination provides further information on these payments.
Drawing rights limits
6.             Subsection 16(3) of the Act provides that the total amount credited to the COAG Reform Fund for the purpose of making National Partnership payments in the 2009-10 financial year must not exceed $23 billion. 
7.             The amounts specified in Table 2 are the total amounts determined in the 2009-10 financial year in respect of National Partnership payments, including this determination.
Table 2: Total cumulative payments of National Partnership payments in 2009-10
 
8.             The total amount determined for National Partnership payments to date in the 2009-10 financial year does not exceed the general drawing rights limit.
SChedule 1
Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 7 september 2009