Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00826:clause:2_495a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00826
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 495A
Character Range: 10254–11580

495A  Minister may arrange for use of computer programs to make decisions etc.

 (1) The Minister may arrange for the use, under the Minister's control, of computer programs for any purposes for which the Minister may, or must, under the designated migration law:
 (a) make a decision; or
 (b) exercise any power, or comply with any obligation; or
 (c) do anything else related to making a decision, exercising a power, or complying with an obligation.

 (2) The Minister is taken to have:
 (a) made a decision; or
 (b) exercised a power, or complied with an obligation; or
 (c) done something else related to the making of a decision, the exercise of a power, or the compliance with an obligation;
that was made, exercised, complied with, or done (as the case requires) by the operation of a computer program under an arrangement made under subsection (1).

 (3) For the purposes of this section, the following provisions are the designated migration law:
 (a) Subdivisions A, AA, AB and AC of Division 3 of Part 2 (other than section 48B);
 (b) any provision of this Act or of the regulations that the Minister determines, in writing, to be part of the designated migration law.

 (4) A determination under paragraph (3)(b) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.