Child Care Benefit (Specified Qualifications for Registered Carers) Determination 2017

I, Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, make this instrument under subsection 210(4) of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999.

Dated 18 September 2017

Simon Birmingham

Minister for Education and Training

Contents

1  Name 

2  Commencement and repeal

3  Authority

4  Specified qualifications for young registered carers

1  Name

  This instrument is the Child Care Benefit (Specified Qualifications for Registered Carers) Determination 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 (3) This instrument is repealed immediately after the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Act 2017.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  Specified qualifications for young registered carers

  For subparagraph 210(1)(b)(ii) of the Family Assistance Administration Act, an individual who does not meet the age requirement in subsection 210(2) of the Act must have a qualification that:

 (a) relates to early childhood education, child care or home and community care; and

 (b) has been issued by a registered training organisation within the scope of its registration (within the meaning of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011); and

 (c) is included on the National Register (within the meaning of that Act).

Note: In 2017, the National Register could be found at www.training.gov.au.