12Grants in relation to establishment of new eligible child care centres

#### 12 Grants in relation to establishment of new eligible child care centres (1) Where, at any time during the 6 weeks immediately before an eligible child care centre first begins to provide child care, a person is employed by the operator of the centre to establish it, the Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, approve the making of a grant to the operator of an amount not exceeding the amount of the salary or wages paid to the person in respect of that period by the operator. (2) The Minister may authorize the payment to the operator of an eligible child care centre of an advance or advances in respect of a grant that may become payable to the operator under subsection (1). (3) In this section salary or wages in relation to a person referred to in subsection (1), means salary or wages at the rate fixed by an award, order, determination or agreement made, or having effect under, a law of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory, or if no such rate is applicable, the rate of salary or wages determined by the Minister.