SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 6A Secretary may arrange for use of computer programs to make decisions

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 6A

  (1)   The Secretary may arrange for the use, under the Secretary's control, of computer programs for any purposes for which the Secretary or any other officer may make decisions under the social security law.

Note:   The definition of decision in the 1991 Act applies for the purposes of this section: see subsection   3(2) of this Act. That definition covers the doing of any act or thing. This means, for example, that the doing of things under subsection   202(1) or (2) of this Act are decisions for the purposes of this section.

  (2)   A decision made by the operation of a computer program under an arrangement made under subsection   (1) is taken to be a decision made by the Secretary.