17. The rule based computerized method of administering rule based systems as claimed in claim 14 , and including: utilising the computerized database to automatically transform existing legislation, policy or rule sets of a rule based system into a format consistent with the normalized rules.
14. The rule based computerized method of administering rule based systems as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the normalized rules are such that: the grammatical syntax and semantics of a determinative legislative, policy or rule set provision explicitly reflect an underlying logical structure in a particular and preferred form, and the syntax of legislative, policy or rule set provisions used for calculating amounts or quantities explicitly reflects calculations and algorithms that have a particular and preferred syntactic structure.