COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 2020
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(1) The Governor may make regulations for the purposes of this Act.
(2) Regulations may –
(a) apply or incorporate, wholly or partly and with or without modification, a code, standard, policy or other document prepared or published by the Minister or another specified person or body; and
(b) provide that any matter or thing is to be determined, dispensed with, regulated or prohibited, according to the discretion of –
(i) the Minister; or
(ii) the State Controller within the meaning of the Emergency Management Act 2006 ; or
(iii) the Director; or
(iv) any other person or body specified in the regulations.
(3) A reference in this section to a code, standard, policy or other document includes a reference to an amendment of that code, standard, policy or other document, whether the amendment is published before or after the commencement day.
(4) If a code, standard, policy or other document is referred to or incorporated in the regulations –
(a) a copy of the code, standard, policy or other document must be made and kept available for viewing, without charge, at a website of the department primarily responsible for the administration of the matter to which the code, standard, policy, or other document, relates; and
(b) evidence of the contents of the code, standard, policy or other document may be given in any legal proceedings by production of a document apparently certified by the Minister to be a true copy of the code, standard, policy or other document.
(5) The regulations may be made so as to apply differently according to matters, limitations or restrictions, whether as to time, circumstance or otherwise, specified in the regulations.
(6) The regulations may specify that the requirement, under section 4 or 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1992 , for compliance with guidelines, or for the preparation of a regulatory impact statement, in relation to regulations made under this Act, does not apply in relation to a regulation specified in a regulation, or all regulations.