Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1992 No. 229, 1992 - SECT 90

90. After section 349 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted
in Subdivision C of Division 8 of Part 2.7: Changes to payments by computer
following automatic termination or reduction

"349A. If:

   (a)  a person is receiving a widowed person allowance on the basis of data
        in a computer; and

   (b)  the allowance is automatically terminated or the allowance rate is
        automatically reduced by the operation of a provision of this Act; and

   (c)  the automatic termination or reduction is given effect to by the
        operation of a computer program approved by the Secretary stopping
        payment or reducing the rate of payment of the allowance; there is
        taken to be a decision by the Secretary that the automatic termination
        or rate reduction provision applies to the person's allowance. Note:
        the decision that is taken to have been made is a decision of an
        officer for the purposes of review by the Secretary (see sections 1239
        and 1240) and the Social Security Appeals Tribunal (see section
        1247).".