Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00160:reg:2:p38
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00160
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2 (pt 38/51)
Character Range: 3421256–3427043

to a member if all of the following apply.
    a.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   The member has received compulsory tuition fees for study in Australia under Division 4.
    b.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   The member's child has relocated to the member's posting location overseas to study before the end of the member's posting.
2.  The member is ineligible for benefits under this Division unless all of the following apply.
    a.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   One of the following applies.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         i.                                                                                                                                                                   The member has repaid any benefit for compulsory tuition fees for the child's study in Australia under section 15.6.28 for the period the child is not in Australia.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ii.                                                                                                                                                                  The period for which the compulsory tuition fees for study in Australia has ended.
    b.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   The CDF considers the cost to Defence and approves benefits under this Division.
3.  If the member has paid a contribution under section 15.6.26 or section 15.6.27 and the period for which the contribution was paid has not ended, the member is eligible for a reimbursement calculated using the following formula.

    Where:
    A                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    is the number of days left of the period the contribution covered from the day the Commonwealth was repaid the compulsory tuition fees it paid.
    B                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        is the number of days the contribution covered.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Note: The period could be a school term, number of school terms or the full school year.  The dates for school terms and school years are determined by the school.
    C                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    is the contribution the member paid.

15.6.17A Mandatory COVID-19 testing

   A member is eligible to be reimbursed the cost of one COVID-19 test each school term for a school-age dependant if the following conditions are met.
   a.                                                                                                                                                    The school-age dependant attends, or is to attend, a school.
   b.                                                                                                                                                    A COVID-19 test is a mandatory requirement of the school.
   c.                                                                                                                                                    The school-age dependant has a COVID-19 test.

Division 2A: Education assistance for children at the posting location – School holiday programs

15.6.17B Definitions

   In this Division, the following apply.
   Reimbursement period means the total number of weekday of school holidays in the academic year for the school the child attends less 60 days.

   Note: A public holiday that falls on a weekday within the school holidays included when determining the number of days of school holidays.
   An academic year commences on the first day of the first teaching period in a school year and ends on the day before the first day of the first teaching period of the next school year.

15.6.17C Member this Division applies to

   This Division applies to a member whose child attends a primary or secondary school at the overseas posting location where, when combined, the school holiday period is greater than 60 weekdays in an academic year.

15.6.17D School holiday program costs

1.  Subject to