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the person's ordinary income less the ordinary income free area.
Step 4.  If the person's ordinary income does not exceed the ordinary income free area, the person's ordinary income excess is nil.

"(2) If the person's ordinary income excess is nil, the person's annual rate of home child care allowance is equal to the maximum rate of the allowance.

Note: For the maximum rate of home child care allowance see section 928.

"(3) If the person's ordinary income exceeds the ordinary income free area, the person's annual rate of home child care allowance is worked out as follows:

  (a) divide the person's ordinary income excess by 4;

     (b) take the result in paragraph (a) away from the maximum rate of allowance;

the result is the person's annual rate of home child care allowance.

"Division 6—Payment of home child care allowance

Commencement of home child care allowance

"930. Home child care allowance becomes payable to a person on the first day on which:

  (a) the person is qualified for the allowance; and

     (b) no provision of this Act makes home child care allowance not payable to the person.

Note 1: For 'qualification' see section 906.

Note 2: For the circumstances when home child care allowance is not payable see section 908.

Payment by instalments

"931. Subject to section 932, a full instalment of home child care allowance is payable to a person on each home child care allowance payday on which:

  (a) the person is qualified for the allowance; and

  (b) the allowance is payable to the person.

Note: For 'home child care allowance payday' see subsection 23(1).

Effect on instalments of backdating claim

  "932. If:

    (a) a person claims home child care allowance on a particular day (the 'claim day'); and

  (b) the person's provisional commencement day is before the claim day; and

    (c) there is a home child care allowance payday on or after the provisional commencement day and before the claim day;

then:

    (d) no instalment of home child care allowance is payable on that payday; and

    (e) a full instalment of home child care allowance in respect of that payday is payable on the first home child care allowance payday on or after the claim day.

Note 1: For 'provisional commencement day' see section 910.

Note 2: For 'home child care allowance payday' see subsection 23(1).

Calculation of amount of instalment

"933.(1) The amount of an instalment of home child care allowance is the amount worked out by dividing the amount of the annual rate of the allowance by 26.

"(2) If an amount that is payable to a person on a home child care allowance payday is not a multiple of 10 cents, the amount is,