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Customs and Excise Act 2018

Administrative provisions - Automated electronic systems

297: Publication of details of arrangements for use of automated electronic systems

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"Details of computer systems used to make decisions must be made public"

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When the chief executive makes arrangements to use an automated electronic system, you will be able to find details about it. The chief executive must publish these details as soon as possible in the Gazette and on a website that they control. This website must be free for you to access.

The published details will tell you what decision or action the automated electronic system will make, and which system will be used. This helps you understand how the system works and what it does.

If the chief executive forgets to publish the details right away, it does not mean the automated electronic system cannot be used, you can still find more information by looking at the legislation website.

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Part 5Administrative provisions
Automated electronic systems

297Publication of details of arrangements for use of automated electronic systems

  1. The chief executive 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 chief executive; 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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