Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DATA-MATCHING PROGRAM (ASSISTANCE AND TAX) ACT 1990 - SECT 3A

             (1)  If:

                     (a)  the Secretary of the Department of Social Security 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 the Secretary's powers under an Act; and

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

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

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

             (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 Legislative Instruments under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 , or on such later day as is specified in it, and remains in force until it is revoked.