6Reasons for additional absences

#### 6 Reasons for additional absences (1) For paragraph 10(4)(e) of the Family Assistance Act, a child care service is taken to have provided a session of care to a child on a day in a financial year where the absence on that day is directly due to one of the following reasons: (a) where: (i) the child has not been immunised against a particular infectious disease; and (ii) the absence occurs during an immunisation grace period in respect of the child (see subsection 67CD(9) of the Family Assistance Administration Act); and (iii) the provider of the service holds a written statement given by a medical practitioner which certifies that exposure to the infectious disease would pose a health risk to the child; (b) where: (i) the provider of the service holds a copy of a court order (including a parenting order within the meaning of section 64B of the Family Law Act 1975), a registered parenting plan or a parenting plan in relation to the child; and (ii) that order or plan requires the child to spend time with a person other than the individual in whose care the child usually is; and (iii) the absence occurs because the child spends time with that other person; (c) where the service is closed as a direct result of a period of emergency; (d) where the child cannot attend as a direct result of a period of emergency (for example, because they are unable to travel to the service), if: (i) the period is still underway; or (ii) the period ended not more than 28 days before the absence; (e) where the absence is due to the individual in whose care the child is, deciding the child should not attend the service for up to seven days immediately following the end of a period of emergency.