Child Care Subsidy Amendment (Coronavirus Response Measures No. 4) Minister’s Rules 2021
I, Alan Tudge, Minister for Education and Youth, make the following rules.
Dated 3 August 2021
Alan Tudge
Minister for Education and Youth
Contents
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Child Care Subsidy Minister’s Rules 2017
5AA Particular event or circumstance—COVID-19 for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 financial years
5AAB Particular event or circumstance—COVID-19 for 23 June 2021 onwards
This instrument is the Child Care Subsidy Amendment (Coronavirus Response Measures No. 4) 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 |
The whole of this instrument. | 23 June 2021. | 23 June 2021. |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
This instrument is made under subsection 85GB(1) of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
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.