Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018
Decisions by deciding officers - electronic applications | ||
15. Section 300 (amended by section 6 of the Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 ) of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (2): | ||
“(2A) Nothing in this Act shall prevent the Minister from providing for an application to be made by electronic means in respect of a matter specified in subsection (2) and the entitlement or otherwise to any such matter and any such electronic application is without prejudice to subsection (1). | ||
(2B) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2A), nothing in this Act shall prevent the Minister from providing for the award of a payment in relation to any matter referred to in subsection (2) pursuant to an electronic application. | ||
(2C) Where, pursuant to the making of an electronic application referred to in subsection (2A) or the award of a payment referred to in subsection (2B), any question arises in respect of— | ||
(a) that electronic application, including any question as to whether the person who made the application is or was entitled to an award in respect of a matter specified in subsection (2), or | ||
(b) that payment, including any question in respect of the amount of the payment, or the rate at which the payment is made or the person to whom it is paid, | ||
shall be decided in accordance with subsection (1).”. |