This instrument is the Child Care Subsidy Amendment (Coronavirus Response Measures No. 1) Minister’s Rules 2021.

(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.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after the instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 15C

Repeal the section.

2 Before subsection 16A(1)

Insert:

(1A) This section sets out payments that are prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 2(2A)(c) of Schedule 2 to the Family Assistance Act.

Note: A payment prescribed in this section does not reduce the hourly session fee for a session of care, for the purposes of working out the hourly rate of CCS for that session.

3 Subsection 16A(1)

Omit “For paragraph 2(2A)(c) of Schedule 2 to the Family Assistance Act, a payment”, substitute “A payment”.

4 After subsection 16A(3)

Insert:

Payments for children in vulnerable or disadvantaged circumstances

(3A) A payment made by a State or Territory, or an authority of a State or Territory, to an approved provider is prescribed if:

(a) it is for the purpose of enabling a child in vulnerable or disadvantaged circumstances to participate in early childhood education and care; and

(b) it is made to reduce, wholly or in part, the liability of an individual or the individual’s partner to pay for a session of care provided to the child.

Payments for children to participate in a kindergarten program in Victoria

(3B) A payment made by Victoria to an approved provider is prescribed if:

(a) it is for the purpose of enabling a child to participate in a kindergarten program in Victoria in 2021; and

(b) it is made to reduce, wholly or in part, the liability of an individual or the individual’s partner to pay for a session of care provided to the child.

5 Subsection 16A(4)

Insert:

kindergarten program means an early childhood education program provided to children before their first year of school.