(1) 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):
(a) make a decision; or
(b) exercise any power, or comply with any obligation; or
(c) do anything else related to making a decision, exercising a power, or complying with an obligation.
(2) The Comptroller - General of Customs, Collector or officer (as the case requires) is taken to have:
(a) made a decision; or
(b) exercised a power, or complied with an obligation; or
(c) 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).
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), the provisions are:
(a) Parts IV and VI; and
(b) 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.