Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

The Governor‑General may make regulations prescribing matters:

required or permitted by this Act or the 1991 Act to be prescribed; or

necessary or convenient for carrying out or giving effect to this Act or the 1991 Act and, in particular, may make regulations prescribing penalties of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units for any breach of the regulations.

Without limiting subsection (1), the matters that may be prescribed by regulations include:

ways (other than ways involving the use of a document) in which a claim, application, submission, declaration or determination may be made or withdrawn, or information or a notice, statement, certificate, direction or consent may be given, for the purposes of a provision of the social security law; and

matters relating to the doing of anything in a way referred to in paragraph (a), including matters relating to proof of the doing of things in such a way.

The reference in subsection (2) to ways by which something may be made, withdrawn or given includes, but is not limited to:

the use of electronic equipment; and

ways that involve the use of a telecommunications system.

Anything made, withdrawn or given in a way prescribed by regulations made by virtue of subsection (2) is taken, for the purposes of the social security law:

to have been made, withdrawn or given in writing; and

to have been made, withdrawn or given in accordance with the social security law.

The reference in paragraph (2)(a) to a determination does not include a reference to a determination that is an instrument that is a legislative instrument.