SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 243 Regulations

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 243

  (1)   The Governor - General may make regulations prescribing matters:

  (a)   required or permitted by this Act or the 1991 Act to be prescribed; or

  (b)   necessary or convenient for carrying out or giving effect to this Act or the 1991 Act and, in particular, may make regulations prescribing penalties of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units for any breach of the regulations.

  (2)   Without limiting subsection   (1), the matters that may be prescribed by regulations include:

  (a)   ways (other than ways involving the use of a document) in which a claim, application, submission, declaration or determination may be made or withdrawn, or information or a notice, statement, certificate, direction or consent may be given, for the purposes of a provision of the social security law; and

  (b)   matters relating to the doing of anything in a way referred to in paragraph   (a), including matters relating to proof of the doing of things in such a way.

  (3)   The reference in subsection   (2) to ways by which something may be made, withdrawn or given includes, but is not limited to:

  (a)   the use of electronic equipment; and

  (b)   ways that involve the use of a telecommunications system.

  (4)   Anything made, withdrawn or given in a way prescribed by regulations made by virtue of subsection   (2) is taken, for the purposes of the social security law:

  (a)   to have been made, withdrawn or given in writing; and

  (b)   to have been made, withdrawn or given in accordance with the social security law.

  (5)   The reference in paragraph   (2)(a) to a determination does not include a reference to a determination that is an instrument that is a legislative instrument.