Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment Act 2003 (30 of 2003)

Schedule 2   Amendments of the family assistance law and certain related Acts

Part 1   Amendments commencing on Royal Assent

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

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(5) The Secretary may require a person to give information, or produce a document that is in the person's custody or under the person's control, to a specified agency if the Secretary considers that the information or document may be relevant to:

(a) an application by the person, or any other person, for approval of a child care service for the purposes of the family assistance law; or

(b) the question whether an approved child care service operated by the person, or by any other person, should continue to be approved; or

(c) an application by the person, or any other person, for approval as a registered carer; or

(d) the question whether the person, or any other person, should continue to be approved as a registered carer.

(6) The Secretary may require a person to give information, or produce a document that is in the person's custody or under the person's control, to a specified agency if the Secretary considers that the information or document may be relevant to the question whether, for the purposes of an application for a determination under subsection 57(1) of the Family Assistance Act, the service is the sole provider in an area of the kind of care the service provides.