SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 103 Changes to payments by computer following automatic cancellation or reduction

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 103

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a person is receiving a social security payment on the basis of data in a computer; and

  (b)   the payment is cancelled, or the payment rate is reduced, by the operation of a provision of the social security law; and

  (c)   the cancellation or reduction is given effect by the operation of a computer program used under the control of the Secretary stopping payment or reducing the rate of payment;

the Secretary is taken to have made a determination that the provision referred to in paragraph   (b) applies to the person's social security payment.

  (2)   A determination that is taken, by virtue of subsection   (1), to have been made is taken to have been made on the day on which the cancellation or reduction took effect.