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PATENTS ACT 1990 - SECT 223A

Computerised decision-making

             (1)  The Commissioner may arrange for the use, under the Commissioner's control, of computer programs for any purposes for which the Commissioner may, or must, under this Act:

                     (a)  make a decision; or

                     (b)  exercise any power or comply with any obligation; or

                     (c)  do anything else related to making a decision to which paragraph (a) applies or related to exercising a power, or complying with an obligation, to which paragraph (b) applies.

Note:          A reference to this Act includes the regulations (see Schedule 1).

             (2)  For the purposes of this Act, the Commissioner 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 or the exercise of a power or the compliance with an obligation;

that was made, exercised, complied with or done by the operation of a computer program under an arrangement made under subsection (1).

Substituted decisions

             (3)  The Commissioner may substitute a decision for a decision the Commissioner is taken to have made under paragraph (2)(a) if the Commissioner is satisfied that the decision made by the operation of the computer program is incorrect.



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