Section 103 — Social Security (Administration) Act 1999: Changes to payments by computer following automatic cancellation or reduction

(1) If: (a) a person is receiving a social security payment on the basis of data in a computer; and (b) the payment is cancelled, or the payment rate is reduced, by the operation of a provision of the social security law; and (c) the cancellation or reduction is given effect by the operation of a computer program used under the control of the Secretary stopping payment or reducing the rate of payment; the Secretary is taken to have made a determination that the provision referred to in paragraph (b) applies to the person’s social security payment. (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 cancellation or reduction took effect.