PART IIDECISIONS AND APPEALS

CHAPTER IGENERAL

Decisions

Use of computers4.

(1)

Any decision, determination or assessment falling to be made or certificate falling to be issued by the Department under any relevant statutory provision may be made or issued not only by an officer of the Department acting under its authority but also—

(a)

by a computer for whose operation such an officer is responsible; and

(b)

in the case of a decision, determination or assessment that may be made or a certificate that may be issued by a person providing services to the Department, by a computer for whose operation such a person is responsible.

(2)

In this Article “relevant statutory provision” means any statutory provision contained in—

(a)

Chapter II of this Part;

(b)

the Contributions and Benefits Act;

(c)

the Administration Act;

(d)

the Child Support Order;

(e)

the M1 Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994;

(f)

the M2 Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;

(g)

the Jobseekers Order;F1. . .

(h)

the Recovery of Benefits OrderF2; F3. . .

F2(i)

the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002F4; F5...

(j)

Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007. F6or

(k)

Part 2 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015. F7F8...

(l)

Part 5 of that Order.F9or

(m)

Part 1 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015.F10 or

(n)

section29 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015; F11or

(o)

Articles 13 to 16 of the Welfare Reform and Work (Northern Ireland) Order 2016.