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Social Security Act 2018

Administration - Use of automated electronic systems in respect of information share child support payments

363B: Publication of details of arrangements for use of automated electronic systems

You could also call this:

“Government must tell people when computers make social security decisions”

If the government decides to use a computer system to make decisions about social security, they need to tell everyone about it. They do this by publishing the details in two places. First, they put it in the Gazette, which is like a special government newspaper. Second, they put it on a website that anyone can look at for free.

When they publish these details, they need to say what kind of decisions the computer will make and which computer system will be doing it. If they change anything about how the computer system works, they need to tell everyone about that too.

It’s important for the government to publish this information as soon as they can. However, if they’re a bit late in publishing it, it doesn’t mean the computer’s decisions are wrong or invalid.

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363C: Variation and substitution of decisions made by automated electronic systems, or

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Part 6 Administration
Use of automated electronic systems in respect of information share child support payments

363BPublication of details of arrangements for use of automated electronic systems

  1. MSD must ensure that details of any arrangements to use an automated electronic system, and any variation or revocation of the arrangements, are published as soon as practicable—

  2. in the Gazette; and
    1. on an Internet site that—
      1. is maintained by, or on behalf of, the responsible department; and
        1. is publicly available free of charge.

        2. Those details must identify—

        3. the relevant decision, power, obligation, or related action to be made, exercised, complied with, or taken under the specified provision; and
          1. the automated electronic system that is to make, exercise, comply with, or take that decision, power, obligation, or related action.

            1. The use of an automated electronic system is not made invalid by reason only of a failure to publish details of it or any variation to it as soon as practicable in accordance with subsection (1).

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            • Section 363B: inserted, on , by section 34 of the Child Support (Pass On) Acts Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 27).