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Details: F2012C00068
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Determinations/Other as amended, taking into account amendments up to Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Amendment Determination 2011 (No. 2)
This Determination sets out rules relating to the eligibility of child care services to become, and remain, approved child care services for the purposes of child care benefit.
Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Amendment Determination 2011 (No. 2) - F2011L02402
made under subsection 205(1) of the
This compilation was prepared on 7 December 2011 taking into account amendments up to Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Amendment Determination 2011 (No. 2) (F2011L02402).
Prepared by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
5 Review of decisions 4
Part 2 Eligibility for Approval 5
6 Approval rules 5
7 Suitability of applicant 5
8 Suitability of staff 6
9 Family day care services: suitability of carers 6
10 Provision of care 6
11 Compliance with child care laws 8
12 Insurance 9
13 Priority of access 9
14C Capacity to use electronic interface 10
Part 3 Eligibility for Continued Approval 11
15 Continued approval rules 11
16 Continuing compliance with Part 2 11
16A Compliance with undertakings — general 11
16B Approved in-home care services — compliance with certain undertakings 12
17 Former childcare assistance agreement services 12
18 Continuity of operator 13
19 Notifiable events 13
20 Inspection 14
21 Information regarding child care services 14
21A Approval by Secretary 15
22 Personal information 15
24 Family day care services and in-home care services: in-home care agreement 15
25 24 hour care 16
26 Change of location 17
27 Standard hours family day care and standard hours in-home care 17
Notes to the Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care
Services for Approval and Continued Approval)
Determination 2000 20
This determination may be cited as the Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Determination 2000.
This determination commences on 1 July 2000, immediately after the commencement of Schedule 6 to the A New Tax System (Family Assistance and Related Measures) Act 2000.
the Act means the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999;
applicant means a person who applies under section 194 of the Act for approval of a child care service for the purposes of the family assistance law;
carer means a person contracted by a family day care service or an in-home care service to provide child care;
Education and Care Services National Law means the Education and Care Services National Law set out in the Schedule to the Education and Care Services National Law Act 2010 of Victoria.
electronic interface means electronic equipment, the use of which is approved by the Secretary or another officer, under a provision of the family assistance law to which subsection 4 (1) of the Act relates, as the form, manner or way of:
(a) making an application or claim that the service is required or permitted to make under a provision of the family assistance law; or
(b) withdrawing an application or claim that the service is required or permitted to withdraw under a provision of that law; or
(c) doing any other thing that the service is required or permitted to do under a provision of that law; or
(d) giving notices by the Secretary under a provision of that law.
in-home care means child care provided by a carer, or an employee of an approved child care service, in the home of one of the children being cared for;
key personnel of an applicant for approval of a child care service or operator of an approved child care service means:
(a) an officer (within the meaning given by section 9 of the Corporations Act 2001) of the applicant or operator; and
(b) a member of the group of people that is responsible for the executive decisions of the applicant or operator; and
(c) any other person who is concerned in, or who takes part in, the management of the applicant or operator; and
(d) any person who, under an arrangement with the applicant or operator, manages or supervises the child care service.
registered software means software registered by the Secretary under subsection 4 (3) of the Act.
A decision of an officer under this determination, other than a decision under subsection 12(3), section 21 or section 21A, is reviewable for the purposes of section 108 of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999.
Part 2 Eligibility for Approval
6 Approval rules
The following provisions of this Part are rules that a child care service must satisfy in order to become approved for the purposes of the family assistance law.
7 Suitability of applicant
(1) The applicant must be a suitable person to operate a child care service.
(2) In making an assessment for subsection (1), the Secretary may consider the following matters:
(a) the applicant’s expertise and experience in providing child care;
(b) the applicant’s ability to meet and provide the appropriate quality of child care;
(c) the applicant’s governance arrangements, including:
(i) any arrangements with other persons for the management or supervision of the child care service; and
(ii) any arrangements relating to ensuring compliance by the applicant with the laws and standards mentioned in paragraph (d);
(d) the applicant’s record of compliance with:
(i) the family assistance law; and
(ii) a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory relating to the requirements mentioned in section 11; and
(iii) quality standards relating to child care services;
(e) the applicant’s record of financial management, including:
(i) any instances of bankruptcy, insolvency or external administration; and
(ii) any debts due to the Commonwealth by the applicant in relation to the operation of child care services;
(f) subject to Part VIIC of the Crimes Act 1914, any convictions or findings of guilt against the applicant for an offence (including an offence against children, or relating to dishonesty or violence);
(g) any relevant criminal charges against the applicant pending before a court;
(h) any other matter relevant to the suitability of the applicant.
(3) In making the assessment for subsection (1), the Secretary may also consider the matters mentioned in subsection (2) in relation to the following persons:
(a) any of the applicant’s previous, current or proposed key personnel; and
(b) any person connected with the applicant, who affects, or is likely to affect, the operation of the service by the applicant; and
(c) any person connected with any of the applicant’s previous, current or proposed key personnel, who affects, or is likely to affect, the operation of the service by the applicant.
In assessing whether an applicant is a suitable person to operate a child care service, the Secretary may consider such matters as:
(a) criminal convictions of the applicant’s key personnel;
(b) the record of financial management of the holding company of the applicant, or the bankruptcy of a proposed director of the applicant;
(c) the record of compliance with the family assistance law of a body corporate a director of which is one of the applicant’s key personnel.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), the reference to ‘person’ includes a reference to a partnership or an unincorporated body.
8 Suitability of staff
(1) The staff of the child care service must be suitable people to provide child care.
(2) The applicant must undertake that the service will take reasonable steps to ensure that the staff of the child care service are suitable people to provide child care.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the child care service must undertake a check for the following:
(a) any relevant criminal charges against a staff member pending before a court;
(b) any relevant convictions or findings of guilt against a staff member for an offence.
(4) In considering whether a staff member is a suitable person to provide child care, the Secretary may consider any other matters relevant to the staff in addition to the matters mentioned in subsection (3).
9 Family day care services: suitability of carers
(1) Where the applicant is applying for approval of a family day care service or an in-home care service, carers contracted by the service must be suitable people to provide child care.
(2) The applicant must undertake that the service will take reasonable steps to ensure that carers contracted by the service are suitable people to provide child care.
(a) any relevant criminal charges against the carer pending before a court;
(b) any relevant convictions or findings of guilt against the carer for an offence.
(4) In considering whether a carer is a suitable person to provide child care, the Secretary may consider any other matters relevant to the carer in addition to the matters mentioned in subsection (3).
10 Provision of care
(1) Where the applicant is applying for approval of a centre-based long day care service, the applicant must undertake that:
(a) most of the children to be provided with child care will:
(i) not have commenced school; and
(ii) attend the service at least one day a week;
(b) the service will operate on all normal working days in at least 48 weeks of the year;
(c) the service will be available to provide care for any particular child for at least 8 continuous hours on each normal working day on which it operates; and
(d) where a child attends a session of care, the service will not prevent the child from attending any part of that session.
(1A) Where the applicant is applying for approval of a family day care service, the applicant must undertake that:
(a) most of the children to be provided with child care will attend the service at least one day a week;
(1B) Where the applicant is applying for approval of an in‑home care service, the applicant must undertake that:
(a) the service will provide in‑home care only to a child:
(i) to whom a circumstance mentioned in subsection (1C) applies; and
(ii) to whom only an in‑home care service can provide suitable care;
(1C) For subparagraph (1B) (a) (i), the circumstances are:
(a) the child, or any other child with whom the child lives, has an illness or disability;
(b) the individual in whose care the child is, or the individual’s partner (if any), has an illness or disability that reduces the individual’s, or the partner’s capacity to care for the child;
(c) the child lives in a rural or remote area;
(d) work hours of the individual in whose care the child is, or the individual’s partner (if any), are (or include) the hours during which no other approved child care service (other than an approved in‑home care service) operates that could otherwise provide care;
(e) the individual in whose care the child is or the individual’s partner (if any) is caring for three or more children (including the child) who have not yet commenced school; or
(g) any other circumstances determined by the Secretary in relation to the child.
(2) Where the applicant is applying for approval of an occasional care service, the applicant must undertake that:
(a) most of the children to be provided with child care will not have commenced school; and
(b) the service will operate for a maximum of 9 hours per day.
(3) Where the applicant is applying for approval of an outside school hours care service, the applicant must undertake that:
(a) most of the children to be provided with child care will be attending school;
(b) if the service provides before or after school care, the service will operate on each school day; and
(c) if the service provides vacation care, the service will be available to provide care for any particular child for at least 8 continuous hours on each normal working day for at least 7 weeks of school holidays in a year.
11 Compliance with child care laws
The operation of the service, the provision of care by the service, the construction of the premises of the service and the equipment at the premises of the service must comply with all applicable legal requirements imposed by a law of the Commonwealth or a law of the State or Territory in which the service operates.
The law of the State or Territory includes:
(a) a licensing law applying in the State or Territory;
(b) the Education and Care Services National Law applying as a law of the State or Territory;
- (c) a law of the State or Territory that applies the Education and Care Services National Law as the law of that State or Territory or that substantially corresponds to the provisions of the Education and Care Services National Law.
The Education and Care Services National Law regulates the operation of education and care services, which include child care services of the following kinds: centre based long day care services, family day care services and outside school hours care services.
(1) The applicant must ensure that the child care service is covered by:
(a) workers compensation insurance as required by law; and
(2) However, if the child care service does not exist when the application is made, insurance is not required until the child care service is established.
(3) The applicant must give the Secretary, on request, a copy of any insurance policy required under subsection (1) and a certificate of currency for the policy.
13 Priority of access
(1) Where the applicant is applying for approval of a centre based long day care service, an in-home care service, a family day care service or an outside school hours care service, the applicant must undertake that the service will provide child care places for children in accordance with the following provisions of this section.
(2) Where a child care service is funded by an employer in order to provide child care solely or primarily for the children of the employer’s employees, the service may give priority to those children.
(3) Where a child care service has entered into an agreement with an employer that, in exchange for payment made by the employer to the service, the service will provide access to a certain number of child care places for the children of the employer’s employees, the service may give priority to those children to the extent of the agreed number of places.
(4) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), when an outside school hours care service fills vacant places, it must give school children priority over children who have not yet commenced school.
(5) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), where an outside school hours care service has no vacant places and is providing child care for a child who has not yet commenced school, the service may require that child to leave the child care service in order for the service to provide a place for a school child, but only if:
(a) the person who is liable to pay child care fees in respect of the child was notified when the child first occupied the child care place that the service followed this policy; and
(b) the service gives that person at least 14 days’ notice of the requirement for the child to leave the child care service.
(6) Subject to the preceding provisions of this section, when a child care service fills vacant places it must follow the priority of access guidelines in the Schedule.
(7) Subject to the preceding provisions of this section, where the service has no vacant places and is providing child care for a child who is a third priority under Part 2 of the Schedule, the service may require that child to leave the child care service in order for the service to provide a place for a higher priority child, but only if:
14C Capacity to use electronic interface
(1) The applicant must undertake that the service will be equipped to use the electronic interface, including by having registered software, for the purpose of compliance with the condition imposed on an approved child care service by subsection 196 (2) of the Act.
(2) The applicant must undertake that the service will have the operational capacity to use the electronic interface for the purpose of compliance with the condition imposed on an approved child care service by subsection 196 (2) of the Act.
Part 3 Eligibility for Continued Approval
15 Continued approval rules
The following provisions of this Part are rules that an approved child care service must satisfy in order to continue to be approved for the purposes of the family assistance law.
16 Continuing compliance with Part 2
(1) An operator of an approved child care service must be a suitable person to operate the service.
(2) In making an assessment for subsection (1), the Secretary may consider the matters mentioned in subsections 7 (2) and (3) in relation to the operator.
(3) The staff of the approved child care service must at all times be suitable people to provide child care.
(4) Carers contracted by a family day care service or an in-home care service must at all times be suitable people to provide child care.
(5) When a service employs a new member of staff, or a family day care service or an in-home care service contracts a new carer, the service must undertake the same checks in relation to that person as it was required to undertake under Part 2 of this determination in relation to staff and carers before the service was approved.
(7) The operator of the approved child care service must continue to comply with section 12 of this determination (insurance).
The approved child care service must comply with an undertaking given by the operator for the service under subsection 8 (2), 9 (2), 10 (1), (1A), (2) or (3) or 13 (1).
16B Approved in‑home care services — compliance with certain undertakings
Certain undertakings given before the specified date
(1) An approved in‑home care service must, subject to subsections (2) and (3), comply with an undertaking given under subsection 10 (1B) before the specified date by the operator for the service.
(2) On and after the specified date and before 1 July 2008, the approved in‑home care service may provide in‑home care to a child:
(a) to whom paragraph 10 (1C) (f) (as in force before the specified date) applies; and
(b) to whom no other paragraph of subsection 10 (1C) applies;
only if the service was, immediately before the specified date, providing in‑home care to the child.
(3) On and after 1 July 2008, the approved in‑home care service must not provide in‑home care to a child:
(b) to whom no other paragraph of subsection 10 (1C) applies.
Note Paragraph 10 (1C) (f) (as in force before the specified date) was as follows:
(f) the child, or any other child with whom the child lives, is breastfed by the mother working from home; or
Certain undertakings given on or after the specified date
(4) An approved in‑home care service must comply with an undertaking given under subsection 10 (1B) on or after the specified date by the operator for the service.
specified date means the date of commencement of the Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Amendment Determination 2007 (No. 1).
17 Former childcare assistance agreement services
(1) Where the service is treated as being an approved child care service by virtue of item 11 of Schedule 6 to the A New Tax System (Family Assistance and Related Measures) Act 2000 (childcare assistance agreement services to become approved child care services), the service must comply with the following provisions of this section.
(2) The operator of the child care service must be a suitable person to operate the service.
(3) In making an assessment for subsection (2), the Secretary may consider the matters mentioned in subsections 7 (2) and (3) in relation to the operator.
(4) The staff of the child care service, and carers contracted by a family day care service, must be suitable people to provide child care.
(5) When a service employs a new member of staff, or a family day care service contracts a new carer, the service must undertake the same checks in relation to that person as it would be required to undertake if it were making an application for approval under Part 2 of this determination.
(6) The service must operate as it would have been required to operate if the operator of the service had given an undertaking in respect of the service under the relevant provision of section 10 of this determination (provision of care).
(7) The operator of the approved child care service must comply with section 12 of this determination (insurance) as if the operator were an applicant.
(8) Where the service is a centre based long day care service, a family day care service or an outside school hours care service, the service must provide child care places in accordance with subsections 13 (2) to (7) of this determination (priority of access).
18 Continuity of operator
(1) The approved child care service must continue to be operated by the person who made the application for approval of the service under section 194 of the Act.
(2) Where a service is treated as being an approved child care service by virtue of item 11 of Schedule 6 to the A New Tax System (Family Assistance and Related Measures) Act 2000 (childcare assistance agreement services to become approved child care services), the child care service must continue to be operated by the person who was operating the service on 30 June 2000.
19 Notifiable events
(1) The operator must give the Secretary written notice of at least 30 days before:
(a) entering into a contract for the sale of premises where the child care service is conducted;
(b) terminating the lease of the premises;
(c) changing the address of the service.
(2) The operator must give the Secretary written notice within 14 days of any change to the details contained in the child care service’s application for approval, other than the address of the service.
(3) If the operator becomes aware of something about a member of the service’s staff (or a carer, if the service is a family day care service or an in-home care service) that affects the suitability of the staff member or carer to provide child care, the operator must give the Secretary written notice within 7 days, setting out the action that the operator has taken or intends to take to deal with the situation.
The operator must, at any time during the approved child care service’s hours of operation:
(a) allow an officer of the agency to enter the premises of the service to ensure that the service is being operated in accordance with the family assistance law and this determination; and
(b) give the officer all reasonable assistance,
and for the purposes of this section “agency” means the Department or the Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency.
21 Information regarding child care services
(1) The Secretary may request an operator or child care service to give information:
(a) for a census or survey of child care services; or
(b) regarding the operation of child care services.
(2) Without limiting paragraph (1) (b), the information that the Secretary may request includes:
(a) personal details of each carer employed or contracted by a family day care service and the address and telephone number of the premises where child care is provided by that carer; and
(b) the number of child care places provided, or likely to be available, during a specified period or periods.
(3) The Secretary may request information to be given on an ongoing basis.
(4) The requested information must be:
(b) given to the Secretary, or to a person specified by the Secretary:
(i) at the time, or within the period or periods, specified in the request; and
(ii) in the form, manner or way specified in the request.
(5) If the Secretary’s request requires that information given be kept up to date, any updated information must be given within 14 days after a change affecting the information occurs.
(6) The Secretary may terminate a request for information at any time.
21A Approval by Secretary
The Secretary may approve a form, manner or way of requesting or giving information under section 21.
Note For the power of the Secretary to approve the form, manner or way of doing any thing that is required or permitted to be done under the family assistance law, see section 4 of the Act. Under that section, the Secretary may approve the use of a telecommunication system or other electronic equipment.
22 Personal information
(1) The operator and its officers, employees, agents and contractors engaged in the conduct of the approved child care service must not disclose to any person, other than the Secretary or the agency, personal information about clients.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the information is legally required to be disclosed.
(3) The service must ensure that personal information about clients is securely stored and that staff respect the privacy of individuals using the service by not discussing their personal details other than as needed for the administration of the service.
(4) The service must comply with the National Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 for handling personal information about clients.
(5) An approved child care service must not provide a client with any information that may identify a child as being at risk of serious abuse or neglect.
(6) In this section “client” means any person who is or has been liable to pay child care fees, and any member of the family of such a person.
24 Family day care services and in-home care services: in-home care agreement
(1) It is a condition for the continued approval of a family day care service which provides in-home care for a child or children, or an in‑home care service, that the service enters into a written agreement with the in-home carer and the person who is, or the persons who are, liable to pay child care fees in respect of the child or children.
(2) The agreement referred to in subsection (1) must set out terms and conditions for the provision of in-home care, and must include:
(a) details of the care to be provided to the child, including any particular requirements of children with disabilities, and provision for emergencies;
(b) the names of the children for whom and the period for which the care will be provided;
(c) arrangements for insurance;
(d) confirmation that the carer is not required to carry out any duties other than child care;
(e) details of any training and support that the service will provide to the carer;
(f) any safety requirements to be met by the premises where the care is to be provided;
(g) details of the fees to be charged for the care;
(h) details of alternative arrangements if the usual carer is unavailable for any reason.
(3) For the purposes of this section “in-home carer” means:
(a) the carer; or
(b) the employee of the approved child care service,
who provides in-home care.
25 24 hour care
(1) A an approved child care service must not provide 24 hour care to a child unless the period of 24 hour care has been approved.
(2) Where the period of 24 hour care was not approved at the time the care was provided, but:
(a) is subsequently approved; and
(b) the approval is given before the service’s next report is due,
for the purposes of subsection (1) the approval shall be taken to have been given before the care was provided.
(3) For the purposes of this section a period of 24 hour care is approved if either –
(a) the child care service has given a certificate in respect of the period under subsection 56(3) or (4) of the Family Assistance Act; or
(b) the Secretary has made a decision in respect of the period under subsection 56(6) or (8) of that Act.
(4) In paragraph (2)(b) “next report” means the first report of the service under section 219N of the Act following the provision of the 24 hour care.
26 Change of location
(1) Where an approved child care service has been allocated child care places under section 207 of the Act, it is a condition of continued approval that the service must not change its location unless the Secretary has approved the new location.
(2) In considering whether to approve a service’s proposed new location for the purposes of subsection (1), the Secretary shall take into account any determination made under subsection 7(1) of the Child Care Benefit (Allocation of Child Care Places) Determination 2000.
27 Standard hours family day care and standard hours in-home care
(1) For the purposes of the definitions in section 3 of the Family Assistance Act, standard hours of family day care, standard hours of in-home care, non-standard hours of family day care and non-standard hours of in-home care shall be identified in accordance with the following provisions of this section.
(2) An approved family day care service or an approved in‑home care service shall, in accordance with subsection (3), identify its standard hours in its publications, and in information given to people using the service, as being its standard hours of care.
(3) The following hours only may be identified by a service as standard hours:
(a) subject to subsection (4), hours between 7am and 6.30pm;
(b) 10 continuous hours each day, on Monday to Friday (inclusive); and
(c) hours during which the service normally provides care for the greatest number of children.
(4) A service’s standard hours of care may be at times other than those specified in paragraph (3)(a) if the Secretary approves the provision of standard hours of care at other specified times.
(5) For the avoidance of doubt, an approved family day care service’s standard hours of care, or an approved in-home care service’s standard hours of care, apply for all purposes and in respect of all children in that service’s care.
(6) Non-standard hours of family day care or in-home care shall be any hours that are not standard hours in accordance with the previous provisions of this section.
family, for a child, means the child, the individual in whose care the child is, that individual’s partner (if any), and any other individual with whom the child lives;
parents means the individual in whose care a child is, and that individual’s partner;
single parent means an individual in whose care a child is, and who has no partner.
PART 2 – PRIORITIES
1. First priority A child at risk of serious abuse or neglect.
2. Second priority A child of a single parent who satisfies, or of parents who both satisfy, the work/training/study test under section 14 of the Family Assistance Act.
3. Third priority Any other child.
PART 3 – PRIORITIES WITHIN EACH
Within each category mentioned in Part 2 the following children are to be given priority:
children in families which include an individual whose taxable income % under clause 7 of Schedule 2 to the Family Assistance Act is 100%;
Notes to the Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Determination 2000
The Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Determination 2000 (in force under subsection 205(1) of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999) as shown in this compilation is amended as indicated in the Tables below.
29 June 2000 (see Gazette 2000, No. S 351)
1 July 2000, immediately after the commencement of Schedule 6 to the A New Tax System (Family Assistance and Related Measures) Act 2000
22 December 2000 (see Gazette 2000, No. S 667)
1 January 2001, immediately after the commencement of Schedule 2 to the Family and Community Services (2000 Budget and Related Measures) Act 2000
27 June 2001 (see Gazette 2000, No. S 228)
30 October 2002 (see Gazette 2002, No. S 408)
5 February 2003 (see Gazette 2003, No. S 30)
27 June 2003 (see Gazette 2003, No. S 235)
14 October 2005 (see F2005L03086)
15 October 2005 the day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments
Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Amendment Determination 2005 (No. 2)
20 December 2005 (see F2005L04174)
s.4 (see Table A below)
29 June 2006 (see F2006L02030)
13 October 2006 (see F2006L03342)
14 May 2007 (see F2007L01374)
Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Amendment Determination 2011 (No. 1)
Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Amendment Determination 2011 (No. 2)
21 January 2009 (see F2009L00114)
(see F2011L01707)
(see F2011L02402)
s.4, s.5 (see Table A below)
Part 1, s.3..............................
am. 2000 No. S 667; 2001 No. S 228; 2003 No. S 30; 2003 No. S 235; 2005 F2005L03086; 2006 F2006L02030; 2007 F2007L01374; 2008 F2009L00114; 2011 F2011L02402
Part 1, s.4..............................
Part 1, s.5...........................
Part 2, s.7(1).......................
Part 2, s.7(2).......................
rs. 2000 No. S 667; rep. 2011 F2011L01707
rs. 2011 F2011L01707
rs. 2011 F2011L02402
Part 2, s.7(3).......................
Part 2, s.7(4).......................
am. 2000 No. S 667; rs. 2011 F2011L02402
Part 2, s.8(3).........................
am. 2000 No. S 667;
Part 2, s.9(1).........................
Part 2, s.9(3).........................
Part 2, s.10(1).......................
Part 2, s.10(1A)....................
ad. 2000 No. S 667;
Part 2, s.10(1B)....................
am. 2007 F2007L01374;
Part 2, s.10(1C)....................
Part 2, s.11.........................
Part 2, s.12(1).....................
Part 2, s.13(1).......................
am. 2000 No. S 667; 2003 No. S 30;
Part 2, s.13(1A)....................
Part 2, s.14.........................
ad. 2003 No. S 30;
rep. 2006 F2006L02030;
rep. 2011 F2011L02402
Part 2, s.14A.........................
ad. 2001 No. S 228; rep. 2011 F2011L02402
Part 2, s.14B.........................
ad. 2003 No. S 235; rep. 2011 F2011L02402
Part 2, s.14C……………….
ad. 2008 F2009L00114;
Part 2, s.16(1) ....................
Part 2, s.16(2).....................
Part 3, s.16(4).......................
Part 3, s.16(5).......................
Part 3, s.16(6).......................
rep. 2007 F2007L01374;
Part 3, s.16A.........................
ad. 2007 F2007L01374;
Part 3, s.16B.........................
Part 3, s.17(2).....................
Part 3, s.17(3).....................
Part 3, s.17(8).......................
am. 2003 No. S 30; 2006 F2006L02030;
Part 3, s.17A.........................
Part 3, s.19(1)(c).................
Part 3, s.19(1)(d).................
Part 3, s.19(3).......................
Part 3, s.21............................
rs. 2006 F2006L02030;
Part 3, s.21A.........................
ad. 2006 F2006L02030;
Part 3, s.22(4).......................
rs. No. S 408, 2002;
Part 3, s.23............................
am. 2003 No. S 235; 2005 F2005L03086; 2005 F2005L04174; 2006 F2006L02030; 2006 F2006L03342; 2007 F2007L01374; rep. 2011 F2011L02402
Part 3, s.23A.........................
ad. 2001 No. S 228;
am. 2003 No. S 235; 2005 F2005L03086; 2006 F2006L02030; 2006 F2006L03342; 2007 F2007L01374; rep. 2011 F2011L02402
Part 3, s.23B.........................
am. 2003 No. S 235; 2005 F2005L03086; rep. 2011 F2011L02402
Part 3, s.24 (Heading).........
rs. 2000 No. S 667;
Part 3, s.24(1).......................
Part 3, s.24(2).......................
Part 3, s.24A.........................
Part 3, s.24A(2)....................
am. 2005 F2005L03086; 2006 F2006L02030; 2006 F2006L03342; 2007 F2007L01374; rep. 2011 F2011L02402.
Part 3, s.24B.........................
ad. 2003 No. S 235;
am. 2005 F2005L03086; rep. 2011 F2011L02402
Part 3, s.27 (Heading).........
Part 3, s.27(1).......................
Part 3, s.27(2).......................
Part 3, s.27(5).......................
Part 3, s.27(6).......................
Section 4 of the Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Amendment Determination 2005 (No. 2) provided:
4 Transitional — self-study reports submitted before 1 February 2006
(1) Despite the amendment made by Schedule 1, section 23 of the Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Determination 2000 as in force immediately before 1 January 2006 continues to apply in relation to an approved centre based long day care service in respect of a self-study report that:
(a) is prepared in accordance with the document titled ‘Quality Improvement and Accreditation System Self-study Report’, 2nd edition, 2001, published by the Council; and
(i) is due on or after 1 January 2006 but that is submitted to the Council by the service before 1 January 2006; or
(ii) is due before 1 January 2006 but that is submitted to the Council by the service on or after 1 January 2006 and before 1 February 2006.
(2) For the avoidance of doubt, the amendment made by Schedule 1 applies in relation to an approved centre based long day care service in respect of a self-study report that:
(a) is prepared in accordance with the document titled ‘Quality Improvement and Accreditation System Self-study Report’, 3rd edition, 2005, published by the Council; and
(b) is due on or after 1 January 2006 but that is submitted to the Council by the service before 1 January 2006.
(3) For subsections (1) and (2), a self-study report that is sent by prepaid post to the Council is taken to have been submitted to the Council at the time the report is posted.
Council means the National Childcare Accreditation Council.
Section 4 of the Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Amendment Determination 2011 (No. 2) provided:
4 Saving of existing eligibility rules for approval to applications made before commencement of amendments in Schedule 1
For the assessment of eligibility of a child care service to become approved for the purposes of the family assistance law, Parts 1 and 2 of the Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Determination 2000 as in force immediately before the commencement of this Determination continue to apply to applications under section 194 of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999 made before that commencement.
Section 5 of the Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Amendment Determination 2011 (No. 2) provided:
5 Application of amendment made by Item 6 of Schedule 1
Despite section 4 of this Determination, subsection 12 (1) of the Child Care Benefit (Eligibility of Child Care Services for Approval and Continued Approval) Determination 2000 as amended by Item 6 of Schedule 1 applies to applications under section 194 of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999 that were made, but were not determined under section 195 of that Act, before the commencement of this Determination.