SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 126 Review of decisions by Secretary

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 126

  (1)   The Secretary may review, subject to subsection   (2), a decision of an officer under the social security law if the Secretary is satisfied that there is sufficient reason to review the decision.

  (2)   The Secretary may review a decision:

  (a)   whether or not any person has applied for review of the decision; and

  (b)   even if an application has been made to the AAT for review of the decision.

  (3)   The Secretary may:

  (a)   affirm a decision; or

  (b)   vary a decision; or

  (c)   set a decision aside and substitute a new decision.

  (4)   If:

  (a)   the Secretary sets a decision aside under subsection   (3); and

  (b)   the Secretary is satisfied that an event that did not occur would have occurred if the decision had not been made;

the Secretary may, if satisfied that it is reasonable to do so, determine that the event is taken to have occurred for the purposes of the social security law.