means an entity that meets the description of a type of entity in column 1 of the table in subsection 25‐5(5) of the

Australian Charities and Not‐for‐profits Commission Act 2012

.

includes by way of exchange or purchase or by way of taking on lease, on hire, on hire‐purchase or on lease and purchase.

, in relation to a building or other improvement on land, includes an addition to the building or improvement.

means equipment approved under section 9 or equipment included in a class of equipment approved under that section.

means the purchase or proposed purchase of land, or the construction or alteration or proposed construction or alteration of a building or other improvement on land, approved under section 6.

includes an association and society.

includes a part of a and an addition to a and, in Part VI, includes any other improvement on land.

, in relation to an approved project, means:

(a) where the approved project is the purchase or proposed purchase of land, the sum of:

means the care of children at a time or times when they are not being cared for in their own homes or in the homes of other persons.

has the meaning given by section 4A.

means the committee established under section 14.

, in relation to the acquisition by the operator of an eligible child care centre of approved equipment, means the sum of the amounts that the Minister is satisfied is the of acquiring the equipment and such amount (if any) in respect of altering, adding to or installing the equipment as the Min

has the meaning given by section 4B.

means any one or more of the following:

(a) this Act;

(b) the Family Assistance Act;

(c) any instrument (including regulations) made under this Act or the Family Assistance Act;

does not include an orphanage or like institution.

includes estimates.

means a person performing duties, or exercising powers or functions, under or in relation to this Act and, in relation to a provision of Part IIIA, includes:

(a) a person who has been such a person; and

, in relation to an eligible child care centre, means the person or body operating, or proposing to operate, the centre.

includes a proposed .

means:

(a) information about a person or a child care service that is or was held in the records of the Department; or

(b) information that there is no information about a person or a child care service held in such records.