Section 5C — Social Security Act 1991: Home educators

A person is a home educator of a child if the Secretary is satisfied that: (a) the child is receiving, in the person’s home, education that wholly or substantially replaces the education that the child would otherwise receive by attending a school; and (b) 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 that education to the child; and (c) the person is suitably involved in providing and supervising that education.