Power to make rules and regulations.Power to make rules and regulations.

### Power to make rules and regulations. E.B.A., ss. 132, 133. N.S.W., s. 124. Vic., ss. 34, 44, 209. S.A., ss. 16, 17. W.A., s. 115. Q., ss. 27–29. Tas., ss. 65, 73. 223.—(1.) The Governor-General may make rules or regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for prescribing all matters forms and things which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to this Act or for the conduct of any business relating to the administration thereof, and in particular— (a) for regulating the practice and procedure of Courts having jurisdiction in bankruptcy, and all matters relating to the costs of proceedings under this Act and their taxation; (b) for summoning meetings of creditors and regulating the proceedings thereat; (c) for the mode of proving debts, the right of proof by secured and other creditors, the admission and rejection of proofs and all matters incidental thereto; (d) for regulating the transmission by telegraph of the proxies of creditors at a distance from the place of the bankruptcy proceedings; (e) for prescribing the fees or percentages to be charged in respect of proceedings under this Act or in relation to any declarations, affidavits, instruments, documents, searches, or extracts; and (f) for repealing, amending or adding to the rules set out in the First and Second Schedules to this Act. E.B.A., s. 132 (2). N.S.W., s. 156. W.A., s. 116. (2.) All rules made under this section shall be notified in the Gazette, shall take effect from the date of notification or from a later date specified in the rules, and shall be laid before both Houses of the Parliament within thirty days after the making thereof, or, if the Parliament is not then sitting, within thirty days after the next meeting of the Parliament. (3.) If either House of the Parliament passes a resolution of which notice has been given at any time within fifteen sitting days after any such rules have been laid before such House disallowing any rule, that rule shall thereupon cease to have effect.