The ADM Ledger

PRIVATE PREVIEW - unannounced founder-review build; this is not a public launch. Search indexing is disabled. 20 seed-corpus rows, generated 2026-07-18T13:05:08Z.

These are laws that authorise a computer program to make a decision. This is not a claim that any decision was wrong, that any agency currently automates anything, or how any agency uses the power if it does. Authorisation is not use.

This ledger covers the seed corpus captured in this repository as of the generation date above. It does not claim to be a complete enumeration of every Commonwealth statutory provision authorising computer-program decision-making.

Provision text is Commonwealth legislation sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation under CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International). Archived copies are not authorised versions; for the latest information go to legislation.gov.au.

ActProvisionAdministering agencyDecision classDiscloses?
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999s 6ADepartment of Social Services / Services Australiadecisions under the social security lawSurface recorded (unverified)
verbatim text
Migration Act 1958s 495ADepartment of Home Affairsdecisions under the Act or regulationsSurface recorded (unverified)
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Australian Citizenship Act 2007s 48Department of Home Affairsdecisions under the Act or regulationsSurface recorded (unverified)
verbatim text
Paid Parental Leave Act 2010s 305Department of Social Services / Services Australiadecisions under the ActSurface recorded (unverified)
verbatim text
A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999s 4ADepartment of Social Services / Services Australiadecisions under the family assistance lawSurface recorded (unverified)
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Student Assistance Act 1973s 356Department of Social Services / Services Australiadecisions under the ActSurface recorded (unverified)
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Aged Care Act 2024ss 582-583, including s 583(6)Department of Health, Disability and Ageingdecisions specified for computer-program decision-makingSurface recorded (unverified)
verbatim text
Biosecurity Act 2015s 541ADepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestrydecisions prescribed by legislative instrumentSurface recorded (unverified)
text not machine-extracted
Australian Passports Act 2005s 47Department of Foreign Affairs and Tradedecisions under the ActSurface recorded (unverified)
text not machine-extracted
Business Names Registration Act 2011s 62FAustralian Securities and Investments Commissiondecisions of the Registrar under the ActSurface recorded (unverified)
verbatim text
Higher Education Support Act 2003s 238-10Department of Educationdecisions under the ActNo disclosure surface recorded
text not machine-extracted
VET Student Loans Act 2016s 116Department of Employment and Workplace Relationsdecisions under the ActNo disclosure surface recorded
text not machine-extracted
Australian Apprenticeship Support Loans Act 2014s 106Department of Employment and Workplace Relationsdecisions under the ActNo disclosure surface recorded
text not machine-extracted
National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013s 204National Disability Insurance Agencydecisions under the ActSurface recorded (unverified)
text not machine-extracted
National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018s 189Department of Social Servicesdecisions under the ActSurface recorded (unverified)
text not machine-extracted
Therapeutic Goods Act 1989s 7DTherapeutic Goods Administrationdecisions under the Act or regulationsNo disclosure surface recorded
text not machine-extracted
Customs Act 1901s 4BAustralian Border Forcedecisions under the ActNo disclosure surface recorded
text not machine-extracted
Export Control Act 2020s 415Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestrydecisions under the ActSurface recorded (unverified)
text not machine-extracted
Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020s 187Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Waterdecisions under the ActNo disclosure surface recorded
text not machine-extracted
Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011s 192Clean Energy Regulatordecisions under the ActNo disclosure surface recorded
text not machine-extracted