(1) A parent of a kindergarten age child may
apply to register the child in a distance education kindergarten learning
program provided by a State school.
(2) The application must be made, in the
approved form, to the principal of the school.
(3) The principal may grant
the application if satisfied—
(a) the child is—
(i) an Australian citizen
or permanent resident; or
(ii) a child of an Australian citizen or permanent
resident; and
(b) the child—
(i) lives, in the child’s principal place of
residence, at least 16km by the most direct route by road from the nearest
centre-based service catering to kindergarten aged children; or
(ii) has a
medical certificate stating that the child is unable to attend a centre-based
service for more than 10 consecutive weeks due to the child’s state of
health; or
(iii) has an itinerant lifestyle.
(4) For subsection (3) (b)
(iii) , the child has an itinerant lifestyle only if, because of the nature of
the occupation of a parent of the child—
(a) the child’s principal place
of residence is likely to change at least twice during the registration year;
or
(b) the child will have to spend a period of at least 10 weeks, or a
number of periods of at least 2 weeks that total at least 10 weeks, away from
the child’s principal place of residence during the registration year.
Example of an occupation for subsection (4)—
carnival worker, contract
harvester or shearer
(5) The principal must give the applicant a notice of
the principal’s decision to grant or refuse to grant the application.
(6)
If the decision is to refuse to grant the application, the notice must include
the principal’s reasons for the decision.
(7) In this section—
"centre-based service" means an education and care service other than a family
day care service.
"education and care service" see the Education and Care Services National Law
(Queensland) , section 5(1) .
"family day care service" see the Education and Care Services National Law
(Queensland) , section 5(1) .
"medical certificate" means a certificate signed by—
(a) a person registered
under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise in the
psychology profession other than as a student; or
(b) a medical practitioner.
"permanent resident" means the holder of a permanent visa as defined by the
Migration Act 1958 (Cwlth) , section 30 (1) .
"kindergarten age child" means a child who will be at least 4 years and 6
months on 31 December in the child’s registration year.
"registration year" , for a child, means the year proposed for the child’s
registration in a distance education kindergarten learning program.
