Child Care Act 2001

An approved registration body licence authorises the person specified in it to do, in accordance with this Act, the regulations, the Standards, the licence and any conditions specified in the licence, one or more of the following, as specified in the licence:to arrange, organise or coordinate the placement of a potential child carer with a child who needs child care within the primary or other residence of the child; to arrange, organise or coordinate meetings, or provide information that enables meetings, between a potential child carer and the parent of a child in relation to the provision of child care by the potential child carer in the primary or other residence of the child; to hold himself, herself or itself out as arranging, organising or coordinating the placement of potential child carers with children who need child care in the primary or other residences of the children; to approve and register persons as child carers; to do any other thing specified by the Standards.

The Standards may provide for different classes of approved registration body licences and the types of activities that may be operated, provided or undertaken by the holders of those classes of licences.