Child Care Benefit (Rates and Hardship) Amendment Determination 2007 (No. 1) (Cth)

Child Care Benefit (Rates and Hardship) Amendment Determination 2007 (No. 1)

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

I, MALCOLM THOMAS BROUGH, Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, make this Determination under subsection 82 (3) of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999.

Dated 17 October 2007

MAL BROUGH

Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

1. Name of Determination

This Determination is the Child Care Benefit (Rates and Hardship) Amendment Determination  2007 (No. 1).

1. Commencement

This Determination commences on the day after it is registered.

1. Amendment of Child Care Benefit (Rates and Hardship) Determination 2000

Schedule 1 amends the Child Care Benefit (Rates and Hardship) Determination 2000.

1. Application

(1)   The amendments made by this Determination apply to a hardship determination made for a session of care provided by an approved child care service to a child during a week falling wholly after the application day for the service.

(2)   In this section:

application day has the meaning given by subitem 91 (1) of Schedule 1 to the Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Management System and Other Measures) Act 2007.

Schedule 1        Amendment

(section 3)

[1]           Subsection 7 (2)

substitute

(2)   Subject to subsection (3), 1 or more further hardship determinations may be made for the person in relation to the same event that caused the hardship for which the initial determination was made if:

(a)    the period for which the initial determination, or any further hardship determination, applies has ended; and

(b)    each further determination applies only for 1 week.