New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CHILDREN'S SERVICES REGULATION 2004 - REG 59

59 Director-General may approve emergency child care arrangements

(1) Centre based or mobile children’s service The Director-General may give approval for the licensee of a centre based or mobile children’s service to provide the service to more children than the number of children specified in the licence for that service if the Director-General is of the opinion that the children need to be provided with the service as a matter of urgency.

(2) The Director-General may give such an approval:

(a) only with the agreement of the licensee of the centre based or mobile children’s service, and

(b) only if the number of additional children specified in the approval does not at any one time exceed 5, or 10% of the number of children specified in the licence for the service, whichever is the lesser.

(3) Family day care children’s service The Director-General may give approval for a family day care carer to provide a family day care children’s service to one more child than the number of children specified in the family day care register for the service as the maximum number of children that may be placed with that family day care carer if the Director-General is of the opinion that the child needs to be provided with the service as a matter of urgency.

(4) Home based children’s service The Director-General may give approval for one more child to be provided with a home based children’s service than the maximum number of children who may be provided with the service under clause 58 if the Director-General is of the opinion that the child needs to be provided with the service as a matter of urgency.