76AChief Executive Medicare may use computer programs to take administrative action

#### 76A Chief Executive Medicare may use computer programs to take administrative action (1) The Chief Executive Medicare may arrange for the use, under the Chief Executive Medicare’s control, of computer programs for any purposes for which the Chief Executive Medicare may or must take administrative action under this Act or a legislative instrument made under this Act. (2) Administrative action taken by the operation of a computer program under such an arrangement is, for the purposes of this Act, taken to be administrative action taken by the Chief Executive Medicare. (3) The Chief Executive Medicare may substitute a decision for a decision the Chief Executive Medicare is taken to have made under subsection (2) if the Chief Executive Medicare is satisfied that the decision made by the operation of the computer program is incorrect. (4) In this Act: > administrative action means any of the following: (a) making a decision; (b) exercising any power or complying with any obligation; (c) doing anything else that relates to making a decision or exercising a power or complying with an obligation.