Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A provider to whom a notice is given of a fee reduction decision referred to in item 1 or 2 of the table in subsection 67EB(2) for an individual, for sessions of care provided by a child care service to a child in a week, may allow the individual, or the individual's partner, a discount (a prescribed circumstances discount ) on the pre - discount fee for the week for the individual, or the individual's partner, that is attributable to one or more sessions of care provided by the service to the child in the week if:
(a) the Minister's rules prescribe a particular event or circumstance; and
(b) each session of care to which the discount relates is provided during the period prescribed by the Minister's rules for that event or circumstance; and
(c) any other conditions prescribed by the Minister's rules for that event or circumstance are met.
Note: For pre - discount fee , see subsection (4).
(2) The prescribed circumstances discount that may be allowed to the individual, or the individual's partner, under subsection (1) in relation to a session of care provided in the week may be the whole, or a part, of the pre - discount fee for the week for the individual, or the individual's partner, that is attributable to the session of care.
(3) If the provider allows the individual, or the individual's partner, a prescribed circumstances discount under subsection (1), the amount of the discount is not recoverable from the individual or the individual's partner.
Meaning of pre - discount fee
(4) For the purposes of this section, the pre - discount fee for the week for the individual, or the individual's partner, is the difference between:
(a) the total of the hourly session fees for all sessions of care provided by the child care service to the child in the week; and
(b) the sum of:
(i) the fee reduction amount for the fee reduction decision for the individual in relation to those sessions of care; and
(ii) the amount of any payment prescribed by the Minister's rules for the purposes of paragraph 2(2A)(c) of Schedule 2 to the Family Assistance Act that the individual benefited from in respect of those sessions of care; and
(iii) the amount of permissible staff discount (if any) allowed to the individual, or the individual's partner, for the week under subsection 201BA(1).