This instrument is the Child Care Subsidy Amendment (Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred Support Payment) Minister’s Rules 2025.

(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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 41

Repeal the section.

2 After section 48C

Insert:

48D Additional condition for continued approval for providers in receipt of the Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred Support payment

For the purposes of section 195E of the Family Assistance Administration Act, it is a condition for continued approval that if an approved provider receives a payment under Division 2 of Part 6 of these Rules:

the provider must comply with the undertaking given in accordance with paragraph 60C(1)(d) of these Rules within 14 days of giving the undertaking;
the provider must provide evidence that the provider has complied with the undertaking within 14 days of being requested to do so by the Secretary.

3 At the end of Part 6

Insert:

Division 2—Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred Support payment

60A Definitions

In this Division:

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred local government area means a local government area affected by Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred and that is listed in subsection 60C(2).

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred Support payment means a business continuity payment under section 205C of the Family Assistance Administration Act that is payable in accordance with this Division.

60B Purpose

(1) This Division sets out matters in relation to business continuity payments under section 205C of the Family Assistance Administration Act to providers whose approved child care services are located in an Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred local government area.

Emergency or disaster

(2) For the purposes of paragraph 205C(2)(a) of the Family Assistance Administration Act, Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred is prescribed.

60C Eligibility criteria

(1) For the purposes of paragraph 205C(1)(c) of the Family Assistance Administration Act, a provider is eligible for an Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred Support payment in respect of an approved child care service of the provider if each of the following eligibility criteria are satisfied:

(a) the service is located in an Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred local government area;

(b) the provider has notified the Secretary of the provider’s acceptance of an Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred Support payment in respect of the service, in the form and manner approved by the Secretary;

(c) during the period beginning on 5 March 2025 and ending on 18 March 2025, the service, or part of the service, was closed for:

(i) eight or more consecutive days starting on a day that the service would ordinarily be open; or

(ii) a total of eight or more days on which the service would ordinarily be open;

(d) the provider has given the Secretary an undertaking that if the provider receives notice of a fee reduction decision for an individual concerning sessions of care provided by the service in circumstances to which subparagraph 54B(1)(c)(ii) of these Rules apply, the provider will allow the individual or their partner a discount of 100 per cent of the pre-discount fee attributable to the sessions which the child did not attend.

Note 1: Under section 201BB of the Family Assistance Administration Act, a provider who receives notice of a fee reduction decision for an individual may allow the individual, or the individual’s partner, a discount on the pre-discount fee attributable to sessions provided during a period prescribed by the Minister’s Rules. Section 54B of these Rules prescribes periods of emergencies for the purposes of section 201BB, such as the period of emergency caused by Ex‑Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

Note 2: If the provider has given an undertaking under paragraph (d), they must comply with the undertaking as a condition for continued approval under section 48D of these Rules.

(2) The Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred local government areas are:

(a) Armidale Regional Council;

(b) Ballina Shire;

(d) Brisbane City Council;

(e) Bundaberg Regional Council;

(f) Byron Shire;

(g) City of Coffs Harbour;

(h) City of Gold Coast;

(i) City of Lismore;

(j) City of Moreton Bay;

(k) Clarence Valley Council;

(l) Dungog Shire Council;

(m) Fraser Coast Regional Council;

(n) Glen Innes Severn Council;

(o) Gympie Regional Council;

(p) Ipswich City Council;

(q) Kempsey Shire Council;

(r) Kyogle Council;

(s) Livingstone Shire Council;

(t) Lockyer Valley Regional Council;

(u) Logan City Council;

(v) MidCoast Council;

(w) Nambucca Valley Council;

(x) Noosa Shire Council;

(y) Port Macquarie-Hastings Council;

(z) Redland City Council;

(za) Richmond Valley Council;

(zb) Scenic Rim Regional Council;

(zc) Somerset Regional Council;

(zd) Southern Downs Regional Council;

(ze) Sunshine Coast Council;

(zf) Tenterfield Shire Council;

(zg) Toowoomba Regional Council; and

(zh) Tweed Shire Council.

60D Period

For the purposes of paragraph 205C(1)(d) of the Family Assistance Administration Act, the period beginning on 5 March 2025 and ending on 18 March 2025 is prescribed.

60E Payment amount

For the purposes of paragraph 205C(1)(e) of the Family Assistance Administration Act, the amount of $10,000 is prescribed for the Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred Support payment.