430Regulations: specific obligations: obligations in relation to dependent children: definitions and attendance

1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for either or both of the following purposes:

2. defining (in full, or by reference to other enactments, and as contemplated by section 137(1)) the terms approved early childhood education programme, core check, and registered school, for the purposes of sections 131 to 134; and
3. prescribing, for the purposes of sections 131(1)(b), 132(1)(a), and 137(2), the minimum extent of, or other required manner of, attending an approved early childhood education programme.

4. Regulations made under subsection (1)(a) may, without limitation, define an approved early childhood education programme to be or include an early childhood education programme approved by MSD having regard to all relevant approval criteria (if any) prescribed by the Minister by a written notice.

5. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

6. If the regulations authorise the Minister to prescribe criteria by notice as referred to in subsection (2),—

7. a notice made under those regulations is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements); and
8. the regulations must contain a statement to that effect.

Compare

• 1964 No 136 s 60RAB(1), (3), (4)

Notes

• Section 430(3): replaced, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
• Section 430(4): replaced, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).