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Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 - s 6A

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.

Provision text

6A Secretary may arrange for use of computer programs to make decisions (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.

Details

ActSocial Security (Administration) Act 1999
Provisions 6A
Administering agencyDepartment of Social Services / Services Australia
Decision class (quoted heading)decisions under the social security law
FRL ID (seed)C2004A00580
FRL ID (resolved)C2004A00580
Compilation number163
Capture date2026-07-18T09:20:30Z
SHA-256a5774f7db0975f3d4c98aa13c7c7f3ad55df4ecd0dd6875830029858ab6d0446
Archived copyarchive/frl/social-security-administration-act-1999/2026-07-18/C2026C00010VOL01.pdf (not an authorised version)
FRL sourcehttps://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00580/2025-12-05/2025-12-05/text/original/pdf/1

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Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation at 18 July 2026. For the latest information... go to legislation.gov.au Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International). This is an archived copy and is not an authorised version of the legislation (Legislation Act 2003 Part 3).