Section 5B — Social Security Act 1991: Registered and active foster carers

(1) A person is a registered and active foster carer if the Secretary is satisfied that: (a) the person meets the requirements (if any) of the law of the State or Territory in which the person resides that the person must meet in order to be permitted, under the law of that State or Territory, to provide foster care in that State or Territory; and (b) the person is taken, in accordance with guidelines made under subsection (2), to be actively involved in providing foster care in that State or Territory. (2) The Secretary may, by legislative instrument, make guidelines setting out the circumstances in which persons are taken, for the purposes of the social security law, to be actively involved in providing foster care in that State or Territory.