54GAutomation of specified criminal intelligence assessment action

54G  Automation of specified criminal intelligence assessment action

 (1) The CEO may, in writing, arrange for the use, under the CEO’s oversight, of computer programs to take specified criminal intelligence assessment action that must be taken by the ACC under this Act.

 (2) Specified criminal intelligence assessment action is:

 (a) performing, or refusing or failing to perform, a function or duty under subsection 54C(6); or

 (b) performing, or refusing or failing to perform, a function or duty under subsection 54D(2); or

 (c) doing, or refusing or failing to do, anything related to performing a function or duty under the subsection mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).

ACC treated as having taken specified criminal intelligence assessment action

 (3) Specified criminal intelligence assessment action taken by the operation of a computer program under an arrangement under subsection (1) is treated, for all purposes, as specified criminal intelligence assessment action taken by the ACC.

Substituting specified criminal intelligence assessment action

 (4) The ACC may take specified criminal intelligence assessment action, or make a criminal intelligence assessment under subsection 54C(1), (the substituted action) in substitution for specified criminal intelligence assessment action the ACC is treated as having taken under subsection (3) of this section if the ACC is satisfied that the specified criminal intelligence assessment action taken by the operation of the computer program is not the correct or preferable action.

 (5) The substituted action takes effect on:

 (a) if the ACC specifies the day on which the substituted action takes effect—that specified day; or

 (b) otherwise—the day of the specified criminal intelligence assessment action taken by the operation of the computer program.

 (6) The day specified under paragraph (5)(a) may be earlier than the day the substituted action is taken but not earlier than the day of the specified criminal intelligence assessment action taken by the operation of the computer program.

ACC may still take specified criminal intelligence assessment action

 (7) An arrangement under subsection (1) does not prevent the ACC from taking specified criminal intelligence assessment action.

Arrangement not a legislative instrument

 (8) An arrangement under subsection (1) is not a legislative instrument.