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SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 84

Automatic transfer by computer

  (1)   If:

  (a)   payment of a social security payment to a person is based upon data in a computer; and

  (b)   because of the operation of a computer program used under the control of the Secretary, a social security payment of a different kind becomes payable to the person;

the Secretary is taken to have made a determination:

  (c)   that the payment referred to in paragraph   (b) is to be payable to the person; and

  (d)   that the payment referred to in paragraph   (a) is to cease to be payable to the person immediately before the day on which the payment referred to in paragraph   (b) is to become payable to the person.

  (2)   A determination that is taken, by virtue of subsection   (1), to have been made is taken to have been made on the day on which the payment referred to in paragraph   (1)(b) became payable because of the operation of the computer program.



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