Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act 2020 (22 of 2020)

Schedule 9   Child care

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

9   Subsections 201C(1) and (1A)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

Duty to charge no more than usual hourly session fee

(1) The approved provider of a child care service must not charge an individual who is eligible for ACCS for a session of care provided by the service an hourly session fee that exceeds the hourly session fee that:

(a) the provider would ordinarily charge an individual who is eligible for CCS for the session of care; or

(b) if the provider is not taking reasonable steps in relation to the session of care because of subsection 201B(1A) - the provider charged immediately before the beginning of the period prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 201B(1A)(b).

(1A) The approved provider of a child care service must not charge an individual who benefits from a payment prescribed by the Minister's rules for the purposes of paragraph 2(2A)(c) of Schedule 2 to the Family Assistance Act (a prescribed payment ) in respect of a session of care provided by the service an hourly session fee that exceeds the hourly session fee that:

(a) the provider would ordinarily charge an individual who does not receive a prescribed payment; or

(b) if the provider is not taking reasonable steps in relation to the session of care because of subsection 201B(1A) - the provider charged immediately before the beginning of the period prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 201B(1A)(b).

(1B) If the approved provider of a child care service is not taking reasonable steps in relation to a session of care provided by the service to a child because of subsection 201B(1A), the provider must not charge an individual who is eligible for CCS for the session of care an hourly session fee that exceeds the hourly session fee that the provider charged immediately before the beginning of the period prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 201B(1A)(b).