20Date of effect of determinations

20 Date of effect of determinations

(1) A determination takes effect from the date of effect specified in the determination, which may be earlier or later than the date the determination is made. (2) A determination that the Secretary is taken to have made because of subsection 102(3) (use of a computer program to make decisions) takes effect from the date the relevant decision was made by operation of the computer program, unless the Secretary subsequently determines otherwise. (3) Without limiting subsection (1) or (2), a determination cancelling Australian apprenticeship support loan that is being paid to a person, or reducing the person’s rate of Australian apprenticeship support loan, because of an event or change of circumstance that occurred before the day the determination was made, may be specified to take effect: (a) on the day the event or change of circumstance occurred, if the person was required to inform the Secretary of it and did not do so as required; or (b) on a later day, if: (i) the person was required to inform the Secretary of it and did so as required; or (ii) was not required to inform the Secretary of it. (4) Subsection (3) does not limit when a determination of the kind referred to in that subsection may be specified to take effect.