Customs and Other Legislation Amendment (Australian Border Force) Act 2015 (41 of 2015)

Schedule 1   Amendments of Customs Act

Part 1   Amendments

Customs Act 1901

525   At the end of Part VIA

Add:

126H Comptroller-General of Customs may arrange for use of computer programs to make decisions etc.

(1) The Comptroller-General of Customs may arrange for the use, under the control of the Comptroller-General of Customs, of computer programs for any purposes for which the Comptroller-General of Customs, a Collector or an officer may, or must, under the provisions mentioned in subsection (3):

(a) make a decision; or

(b) exercise any power, or comply with any obligation; or

(c) do anything else related to making a decision, exercising a power, or complying with an obligation.

(2) The Comptroller-General of Customs, Collector or officer (as the case requires) is taken to have:

(a) made a decision; or

(b) exercised a power, or complied with an obligation; or

(c) done something else related to the making of a decision, the exercise of a power, or the compliance with an obligation;

that was made, exercised, complied with, or done (as the case requires) by the operation of a computer program under an arrangement made under subsection (1).

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), the provisions are:

(a) Parts IV and VI; and

(b) any provision of this Act or of the regulations that the Comptroller-General of Customs, by legislative instrument, determines for the purposes of this paragraph.