Section 450 — Social Security Act 2018: Regulations: reciprocity agreements with mutual assistance provisions, and adverse action if discrepancy shown by information from other country

450 Regulations: reciprocity agreements with mutual assistance provisions, and adverse action if discrepancy shown by information from other country (1) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for the purposes of sections 383 and 386 . (2) Regulations made under subsection (1) may (without limitation) do all or any of the following: (a) provide that a reciprocity agreement may contain (instead of, or as well as, any other kind or kinds of mutual assistance provisions) mutual assistance provisions of kinds specified in the regulations: (b) provide that mutual assistance provisions of kinds specified in the regulations may be included in a reciprocity agreement only if those mutual assistance provisions comply with terms and conditions that are, or are equivalent in their effect to, terms and conditions specified in the regulations: (c) provide for the processes to be followed if MSD proposes to take an adverse action against an individual as a result of a discrepancy (for example, a unique identifier discrepancy) produced by information MSD received from the competent institution of the other country under a mutual assistance information exchange provision. Compare: 1990 No 26 ss 2(1) , 19A(1), (2), (3), (4), (5) , 19B , 19C , 19D(3)(c), (d), (4), (4A), (4B), (4C), (5), (6), (7)