Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILDCARE REBATE ACT 1993 No. 112 of 1993 - SECT 27

27.(1) Child care is care of a child that is provided:

   (a)  at the child's home; or

   (b)  at the home of a registered carer who is providing the care; or

   (c)  at a child care centre within the meaning of section 4A of the Child
        Care Act 1972; or

   (d)  at premises at which a child care service referred to in subsection
        (2) is provided.

(2) Paragraph (1)(d) applies to:

   (a)  a child care service for the operation of which the Commonwealth
        provides financial assistance (either directly or by payments to a
        State or Territory); and

   (b)  a child care service for the operation of which a State or Territory
        provides financial assistance, other than a service of a kind that the
        Minister determines not to be a service to which paragraph (1)(d)
        applies; and

   (c)  a child care service of a kind that the Minister determines to be a
        child care service to which paragraph (1)(d) applies.

(3) Determinations under paragraphs (2)(b) and (c) are disallowable
instruments for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act
1901.

(4) Child care provided outside Australia is not taken to be child care for
the purposes of this Act.