Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

A NEW TAX SYSTEM (FAMILY ASSISTANCE) (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 154

             (1)  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 either or both of the following matters:

                     (a)  whether the person, or any other person, whom the Secretary has determined to be entitled to be paid family assistance is or was eligible for the family assistance, or for family assistance of the amount determined;

                     (b)  whether the person or any other person to whom a payment of family assistance has been made was entitled to the payment.

             (2)  The Secretary may require a person to:

                     (a)  give information; or

                     (b)  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 either or both of the following matters:

                     (c)  whether a person who has claimed family assistance (other than an individual who has claimed child care benefit by fee reduction), but who has not had the claim determined, is eligible for family assistance;

                     (d)  the amount of child care benefit that a person is eligible for.

             (3)  The Secretary may require a person to:

                     (a)  give information; or

                     (b)  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 either or both of the following matters:

                     (c)  whether an individual who has claimed payment of child care benefit by fee reduction is conditionally eligible;

                     (d)  if a determination were to be, or has been, made that the individual is so conditionally eligible:

                              (i)  what weekly limit of hours, CCB % or schooling % would be, or is, applicable to the individual; or

                             (ii)  whether the individual would be, or is, eligible for the special grandparent rate for a child.

             (4)  The Secretary may require a person to:

                     (a)  give information; or

                     (b)  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 either or both of the following matters:

                     (c)  what rate of child care benefit;

                     (d)  what weekly limit of hours;

is applicable under determinations made by the Secretary in respect of an approved child care service that is eligible under section 47 of the Family Assistance Act for child care benefit by fee reduction for care provided to a child at risk.

          (4A)  The Secretary may require a person to:

                     (a)  give information; or

                     (b)  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 either or both of the following matters:

                     (c)  whether an individual is eligible under subsection 57EAA(1), 57EA(1), 57F(1) or 57F(1A) of the Family Assistance Act for child care rebate;

                     (d)  the amount of child care rebate:

                              (i)  applicable to an individual under Subdivision AAB or Subdivision AA of Division 4AA of Part 3; or

                             (ii)  to which an individual is entitled.

             (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; or

                     (e)  the records that a person is required to keep under section 219G.

          (5A)  The Secretary may require a person who is required to keep records under section 219G to produce to a specified agency such of those records as are specified in the notice given to the person under section 158.

             (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.