Family Assistance (Vaccination Schedules) (DEEWR) Determination 2009 (Cth)

Family Assistance (Vaccination Schedules) (DEEWR) Determination 2009

I, JULIA EILEEN GILLARD, Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, and on behalf of JENNY MACKLIN, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, make this Determination under section 4 of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999.

Dated             12^th December   2009

Julia Gillard

JULIA GILLARD

Minister for Education

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

Contents

Part 1Preliminary

1Name of Determination   2

2Commencement   2

3Revocation   2

4Definitions Application   2

Part 2Vaccination schedules

5     Application of Part 2   3

6Standard vaccination schedule   3

7Catch up vaccination schedule   3

Schedule 1Standard vaccination schedule   4

Part 1                 Preliminary

1. Name of Determination

This Determination is the Family Assistance (Vaccination Schedules) (DEEWR) Determination 2009.

1. Commencement

This Determination commences on the 1 January 2010.

3              Revocation

The Family Assistance (Vaccination Schedules) Determination 2003 is revoked.

4              Definitions

In this Determination:

Act means the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999.

Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods means the register maintained under section 9A of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.

Hib means Haemophilus influenzae type b.

National Health and Medical Research Council means the council established by section 5B of the National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992.

Path A means vaccination using PRP-T and HbOC Hib vaccines.

Path B means vaccination using PRP-OMP Hib vaccines. 

Part 2                 Vaccination schedules

5              Application of Part 2

This Part applies to child care benefit.

1. Standard vaccination schedule

(1)   Subject to subsections (2) to (6), the standard vaccination schedule is the schedule set out in Schedule 1, under which a child must be vaccinated against a disease or antigen mentioned in an item at the age mentioned in that item.

(2)   Subject to subsection (3), a child is not taken to be overdue for a vaccination under the standard vaccination schedule until one month after the vaccination is due.

       (3)   A child born prior to 1 January 2006 is not taken to be overdue for a vaccination due at age 4 years under the standard vaccination schedule until 1 year after the vaccination is due.

(4)   Subject to subsection (5), a vaccine used to vaccinate a child against an antigen or disease mentioned in Schedule 1 must be registered as a vaccine on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods.

(5)   Subsection (4) does not apply to a vaccine used to vaccinate a child while the child is outside Australia.

(6)   For Hib, a child may be vaccinated in accordance with either Path A or Path B.

1. Catch up vaccination schedule

(1)   The catch up vaccination schedule is the catch up vaccination schedule published by the National Health and Medical Research Council in the Australian Immunisation Handbook, to the extent that it relates to the vaccinations against diseases or antigens listed in Schedule 1, and the relevant vaccine meets the requirements of subsection 6(4).

(2)   A child other than a child mentioned in subsection (3) is not taken to be overdue for a vaccination under the catch up vaccination schedule until one month after the vaccination is due.

(3)   A child born prior to 1 January 2006 is not taken to be overdue for a vaccination due on or after the day the child turns 4 years under the catch up vaccination schedule until the later of the following:

(a)   the day the child turns 5 years;

(b)   1 month after the vaccination is due.

Schedule 1        Standard vaccination schedule

(subsection 6 (1))

Item	Age	Diseases or antigens
1	2 months	Hepatitis B Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis Hib (Path A or B) Poliomyelitis
2	4 months	Hepatitis B Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis Hib (Path A or B) Poliomyelitis
3	6 months	Hepatitis B (or at 12 months) Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis Poliomyelitis Hib (Path A)
4	12 months	Hepatitis B (or at 6 months) Hib (Path A or B) Measles Mumps Rubella
5	4 years	Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis Poliomyelitis Measles Mumps Rubella