Child Care Benefit (When Enrolment Ceases) Specification 2017

I, Michele Bruniges, Secretary of the Department of Education and Training, make this instrument under subsection 219AD(3) of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999.

Dated 16 September 2017

Dr Michele Bruniges AM

Secretary

Contents

1  Name 

2  Commencement and repeal

3  Authority

4  When enrolment ceases—number of weeks of no sessions of care

1  Name

  This instrument is the Child Care Benefit (When Enrolment Ceases) Specification 2017.

2  Commencement and repeal

 (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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 (3) This instrument is repealed immediately after the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Act 2017.

Note: Schedule 1 to the Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Act 2017 commences on 2 July 2018, see section 2 of that Act.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999.

4  When enrolment ceases—number of weeks of no sessions of care

  For subsection 219AD(3) of the Family Assistance Administration Act, the number of weeks over which no session of care has been reported to the Secretary under section 219N of the Act is:

 (a) for the enrolment of a child for care by an approved centre based long day care service, an approved family day care service or an approved in‑home care service:

 (i) if an enrolment advance was paid to the service under section 219RA of the Act for the enrolment—6 weeks; or

 (ii) in any other case—26 weeks; and

 (b) for the enrolment of a child for care by an approved occasional care service—26 weeks; and

 (c) for the enrolment of a child for care by an approved outside school hours care service:

 (i) if the enrolment is not for a school holiday session and an enrolment advance was paid to the service under section 219RA of the Act for the enrolment—10 weeks; or

 (ii) in any other case—26 weeks.