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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2011 - SECT 96A

96A—Interpretation

        (1)         In this Part—

"early childhood service" means a service for the education or care (or both) of a child under the age of 6 years but does not include the following services:

            (a)         the provision of primary education provided at or in connection with a primary school;

            (b)         a service comprising a person engaged by a parent or guardian of a child to babysit the child in the child's home;

            (c)         a babysitting, playgroup or childminding service that is organised informally by the parents or guardians of the children concerned;

            (d)         a service provided for a child by a family member of the child or friend of the family of the child personally under an informal arrangement where no offer to provide that service was advertised;

            (e)         a service principally conducted to provide tuition to 1 child or a number of children who ordinarily reside together;

            (f)         a service principally conducted to provide instruction in a particular activity (such as sport, dance and music);

            (g)         a service where a parent or guardian of each child remains on site and is available to care for their child if required;

            (h)         a service comprising out of school care;

                  (i)         care provided to a child by a person in accordance with a parenting order under the Family Law Act 1975 of the Commonwealth or the Family Court Act 1997 of the Commonwealth;

            (j)         care provided to a child under the Children and Young People (Safety) Act 2017 ;

            (k)         any other service, or service of a kind, prescribed by the regulations;

Example—

Childcare, family day care, pre-school, occasional care, kindergarten and early learning centre services are early childhood services for the purposes of this Part.

"immunisation record" means any of the following records and documents relating to the immunisation status of a child:

            (a)         an extract, or extracts, from the Australian Immunisation Register under the Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015 of the Commonwealth;

            (b)         a document of a kind approved by the Chief Public Health Officer;

            (c)         a certificate in writing issued by the Chief Public Health Officer;

"vaccine preventable disease" has the same meaning as in the Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015 of the Commonwealth.

        (2)         For the purposes of this Part, a child "meets the immunisation requirements" if the child meets the immunisation requirements within the meaning of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999 of the Commonwealth (subject to any prescribed modifications).



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