56BPayment of child care benefit by fee reduction where claim by an approved child care service

#### 56B Payment of child care benefit by fee reduction where claim by an approved child care service (1) If: (a) a claimant that is an approved child care service is entitled to be paid child care benefit by fee reduction for sessions of care provided by the claimant to a child at risk during a financial year; and (b) the amount of the entitlement is greater than the total amount already received by the claimant in respect of the financial year from one or more payments of an advance amount paid to reimburse the service the amount of the fee reductions made for care provided by the service to the child; the Secretary must pay the amount of the difference to the claimant at such time as the Secretary considers appropriate and to the credit of a bank account nominated and maintained by the claimant. (2) The Secretary may direct that the whole or a part of an amount which is to be paid under this section is to be paid in a different way from that provided for by subsection (1). If the Secretary gives the direction, the amount is to be paid in accordance with the direction. (3) This section is subject to Part 4 (Overpayments and debt recovery).