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CUSTOMS ACT 1901 - SECT 126H

Comptroller - General of Customs may arrange for use of computer programs to make decisions etc.

  (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.

 



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