18. A recognized home educational childcare providers association represents all the home educational childcare providers operating in a given territory. It has the following rights and powers:(1) to defend and promote the economic, social, moral and professional interests of home educational childcare providers;
(2) to cooperate with any organization pursuing similar interests;
(3) to research or study any subject likely to have an impact on the economic and social situation of home educational childcare providers;
(4) to set the amount of dues payable by home educational childcare providers; and
(5) to negotiate and sign a group agreement in accordance with this Act.