Comptroller‑General of Customs may arrange for use of computer programs to make decisions etc
126H Comptroller‑General of Customs may arrange for use of computer programs to make decisions etc
The Comptroller‑General of Customs may arrange for the use, under the control of the Comptroller‑General of Customs, of computer programs for any purposes for which the Comptroller‑General of Customs, a Collector or an officer may, or must, under the provisions mentioned in subsection (3):
make a decision; or
exercise any power, or comply with any obligation; or
do anything else related to making a decision, exercising a power, or complying with an obligation.
The Comptroller‑General of Customs, Collector or officer (as the case requires) is taken to have:
made a decision; or
exercised a power, or complied with an obligation; or
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).
For the purposes of subsection (1), the provisions are:
Parts IV and VI; and
any provision of this Act or of the regulations that the Comptroller‑General of Customs, by legislative instrument, determines for the purposes of this paragraph.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
). Made under this Act:
- Customs (Australia–US Free Trade Agreement) Regulations 2004 · under s 270
- Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations 1958 · under s 112
- Customs (Thailand-Australia Free Trade Agreement) Regulations 2004 · under s 270
136 more instruments made under this Act are listed on the Act’s overview.
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