Data-matching Program (Assistance and Tax) Act 1990

PART 1 - PRELIMINARY  

SECTION 3A   DIRECTIONS BY SECRETARY OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT  

3A(1)    

If:

(a) the Secretary of the Social Services Department delegates to:

(i) the Chief Executive Centrelink; or

(ii) a Departmental employee (within the meaning of the Human Services (Centrelink) Act 1997 );

all or any of that Secretary ' s powers under an Act; and

(b) as a result of the delegation it is not appropriate for that Department to be an assistance agency within the meaning of this Act;

that Secretary may, by legislative instrument, direct that despite subsection 3(1), while the direction remains in force, that Department is not taken to be an assistance agency.

3A(2)    
A direction has effect according to its terms.

3A(3)    

A direction comes into force on the first moment of the day next following the day when it is registered in the Federal Register of Legislation under the Legislation Act 2003 , or on such later day as is specified in it, and remains in force until it is revoked.

3A(4)    
(Repealed by No 108 of 2006)