{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/section-50A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991/section-50A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/48",
  "legislation_title": "Child Support Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-act-1991",
  "path": "section/50A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50A",
  "heading": "Use of computers",
  "text": "Any decision falling to be made under or by virtue of this Act by the Secretary of State may be made, not only by a person authorised to exercise the Secretary of State’s decision-making function, but also by a computer for whose operation such a person is responsible.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 50A inserted (1.11.2008) by Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c. 6), s. 62(3), Sch. 3 para. 51; S.I. 2008/2675, art. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 50A substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 60(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 50A substituted (1.8.2012) by The Public Bodies (Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2007), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 60(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/48/section/50A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:37:00.270775+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}