Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CHILDCARE REBATE ACT 1993 No. 112 of 1993 - SECT 44

44.(1) The claimant's maximum claimable amount for a week is the amount
specified in subsection (2) or (3) (whichever is applicable).

(2) The maximum claimable amount is the fee relief ceiling if the claimant
paid amounts to one or more registered carers for providing child care during
that week to only one dependent child of the claimant.

(3) The maximum claimable amount is twice the fee relief ceiling if the
claimant paid amounts to one or more registered carers for providing child
care during that week to more than one dependent child of the claimant.

(4) In this section:

"fee relief ceiling" means the lowest weekly fee that a child care centre
(within the meaning of the Child Care Act 1972) may charge for providing 50
hours of child care in respect of which the maximum amount of fee relief would
be payable under the guidelines in force under section 12A of the Child Care
Act 1972. Note: The Health Insurance Commission can tell you what the current
fee relief ceiling is.