A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

PART 9 - OTHER MATTERS  

SECTION 223   Secretary may arrange for use of computer programs to make decisions  

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223(1)    

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The Secretary may arrange for the use, under the Secretary ' s control, of computer programs for any purposes for which the Secretary or any other officer may make decisions under the family assistance law.

Note:

The definition of decision in subsection 3(1) covers the doing of any act or thing. This means, for example, that the doing of things under subsection 162(1) or (2) are decisions for the purposes of this section.

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History

S 223(1) amended by No 17 of 2020, s 3 and Sch 1 items 81 and 82, by inserting " or any other officer " after " for which the Secretary " and inserting the note, effective 7 December 2020.

223(2)    
A decision made by the operation of a computer program under an arrangement made under subsection (1) is taken to be a decision made by the Secretary.

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S 223 substituted by No 47 of 2001, s 3 and Sch 3 item 16, effective 12 June 2001. S 223 formerly read:

Decisions taken by computer  
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If:

(a) payment of family assistance is based upon data in a computer; and

(b) the amount or rate of the payment is increased or reduced, or the payment is stopped, because of the operation of a computer program used under the control of the Secretary; and

(c) the program causes the change for a reason for which the Secretary could make the change;

the Secretary is taken to have made the change, in writing, at the time at which the computer program caused the change to be made.

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