Child Care Subsidy Amendment (Coronavirus Response Measures No. 4) Minister’s Rules 2021

Dated   3 August 2021

Alan Tudge

Contents

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4  Schedules................................................................................................................................. 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                           2

Child Care Subsidy Minister’s Rules 2017                                                                                      2

5AA  Particular event or circumstance—COVID-19 for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 financial years        2

5AAB  Particular event or circumstance—COVID-19 for 23 June 2021 onwards...................... 2

1  Name

                   This instrument is the Child Care Subsidy Amendment (Coronavirus Response Measures No. 4) Minister’s Rules 2021.

2  Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

                   This instrument is made under subsection 85GB(1) of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999.

4  Schedules

                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Child Care Subsidy Minister’s Rules 2017

1 Section 5AA, heading

Repeal the heading, substitute:

5AA  Particular event or circumstance—COVID-19 for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 financial years

2 After section 5AA

Insert:

5AAB  Particular event or circumstance—COVID-19 for 23 June 2021 onwards

(1)   This section sets out, for the purposes of subparagraph 10(2)(c)(ii) and subsection 10(2AA) of the Family Assistance Act, conditions relating to a particular event or circumstance to be met in order for a child care service to be taken to have provided a session of care to a child.

(2)   The particular event or circumstance is the COVID‑19 pandemic.

Conditions

(3)   It is a condition that the day is during a period the child care service was in a COVID-19 hotspot.

(4)   For the purposes of this section, a child care service is in a COVID‑19 hotspot if it is in a location that is both:

(a)    subject to a State or Territory public health order restricting the movement of persons for a period; and

(b)   within a COVID-19 hotspot as determined by the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer for the purposes of Commonwealth support for a period of more than 7 days.

(5)   If, but for this subsection, a session of care could be taken to have been provided under either this section or section 5AA, the conditions in this section apply and the conditions in section 5AA do not.