296Computerised decision‑making

#### 296 Computerised decision‑making (1) The Regulator may, by instrument in writing, arrange for the use, under the Regulator’s control, of computer programs for any purposes for which the Regulator may, or must, under this Act or the regulations: (a) make a decision; or (b) exercise any power or comply with any obligation; or (c) do anything else related to making a decision or exercising a power or complying with an obligation. (2) For the purposes of this Act and the regulations, the Regulator 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 such an arrangement. (3) An instrument made under subsection (1) is not a legislative instrument.