Childcare Support Act 2018
Number 11 of 2018
CHILDCARE SUPPORT ACT 2018
REVISED
Updated to 2 January 2023
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Childcare Support Act 2018. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including the Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Act 2022 (52/2022), enacted 21 December 2022, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Planning And Development And Foreshore (Amendment) Act 2022 (Commencement) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 1 of 2023), made 9 January 2023, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 11 of 2018
CHILDCARE SUPPORT ACT 2018
REVISED
Updated to 2 January 2023
Introduction
This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.
Related legislation
Childcare Support Acts 2018 and 2019: this Act is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation, to be construed together as one (Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2019 (36/2019), s. 1(5)). The Acts in this group are:
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (11/2018)
• Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2019 (36/2019), Part 3 (ss. 9-11) (Repealed)
Annotations
This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.
An explanation of how to read annotations is available at
www.lawreform.ie/annotations.
Material not updated in this revision
Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.
Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.
A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at
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Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (19/2022)
• Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Act 2020 (23/2020)
• Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2019 (36/2019)
All Acts up to and including Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Act 2022 (52/2022), enacted 21 December 2022, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Calculation of Amount of Financial Support) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 701 of 2022)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Calculation of Amount of Financial Support) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 367 of 2022)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Calculation of Amount of Financial Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 198 of 2022)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Calculation of Amount of Financial Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 33 of 2020)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Assessment of Income) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 528 of 2019)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Processing of Personal Data) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 513 of 2019)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Calculation of Amount of Financial Support) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 378 of 2019)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Information to be Given by Employers and Education and Training Providers to the Scheme Administrator) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 377 of 2019)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Payment Of Financial Support) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 375 of 2019)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Assessment of Income) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 373 of 2019)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Appeals) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 371 of 2019)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Reviews) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 370 of 2019)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 348 of 2019)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Commencement) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 67 of 2019)
• Childcare Support Act 2018 (Commencement) Order 2018 (S.I. No. 574 of 2018)
All statutory instruments up to and including Planning And Development And Foreshore (Amendment) Act 2022 (Commencement) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 1 of 2023), made 9 January 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Number 11 of 2018
CHILDCARE SUPPORT ACT 2018
REVISED
Updated to 2 January 2023
CONTENTS
1. Interpretation
2. Establishment of Scheme
3. Scheme administrator
4. Functions of scheme administrator
5. Governance
6. Agreements relating to performance of certain functions
7. Persons eligible to apply for financial support
8. Approved childcare services provider
9. Application for financial support
10. Information to be given by employers and education and training providers to scheme administrator
11. Assessment of income
12. Determination of application for financial support
13. Calculation of amount of financial support
14. Provision for vulnerable children
15. Payment of financial support
16. Change of circumstances
17. Reviews
18. Authorised officers
19. Powers of authorised officers
20. Appeals
21. Recovery of payment of financial support
22. Amendment of Act of 1991
23. Amendment of section 265 of Act of 2005
24. Processing of personal data
25. Regulations
26. Review of Scheme
27. Transitional provision
28. Expenses
29. Offences
30. Short title and commencement
SCHEDULE 1
Assessment of Income
SCHEDULE 2
Agreements with Certain Statutory Bodies
SCHEDULE 3
Processing of Personal Data
Acts Referred to
Child Care Act 1991 (No. 17)
Civil Legal Aid Act 1995 (No. 32)
Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (No. 24)
Companies Acts
Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003
Education Act 1998 (No. 51)
Housing Act 1988 (No. 28)
International Protection Act 2015 (No. 66)
Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37)
Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)
Student Support Act 2011 (No. 4)
Number 11 of 2018
CHILDCARE SUPPORT ACT 2018
REVISED
Updated to 2 January 2023
An Act to provide for the establishment of a scheme to be known as the Affordable Childcare Scheme under which financial support may be made available to persons in respect of childcare out of resources allocated to the Minister for the purposes of the Scheme and to provide for related matters.
[2nd July , 2018]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: