41Regulations

41 Regulations

(1) The Governor‑General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act or for the conduct of any business relating to the Designs Office. (2) Without limiting subsection (1), that subsection includes the power to make regulations: (a) requiring persons to furnish statutory declarations in relation to applications under this Act or the regulations relating to designs, or in proceedings under this Act or the regulations (other than court proceedings); and (b) making provision for and in relation to the refund, in specified circumstances, of the whole or part of a fee paid in respect of the lodging of a document; and (c) making provision for and in relation to the remission of, or the exemption of specified classes of persons from the payment of, the whole or part of a fee; and (d) empowering the Registrar to require an applicant for registration of a design to inform the Registrar, within the prescribed period, whether or not the applicant wishes to be heard for the purposes of subsection 24(2); and (e) empowering the Registrar to require an applicant for registration of a design who wishes to be heard for the purposes of subsection 24(2) to appear for the purposes of being so heard on a day, and at a place and time, specified by the Registrar; and (f) providing for the lapsing of an application for registration of a design if the applicant does not comply with the requirements of the Registrar under regulations made under paragraph (d).