286Regulations

286 Regulations

(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to the following matters—

(a) the registration of disability workers and disability students, including applications for registration, periods of registration and renewal of registration;

(b) the Register, including but not limited to the following—

(i) particulars to be noted on the Register;

(ii) the divisions of the Register;

S. 286(1)(c) amended by No. 41/2025 s. 3(Sch. 1 item 16.6).

(c) the restriction on provision of specified disability services by persons other than disability workers with suitable qualifications or experience;

(d) time limits for the purposes of this Act;

(e) forms to be used for the purposes of this Act;

(f) fees for the purposes of this Act;

(g) the Register of Disability Workers and the Disability Students Register, including divisions of those Registers;

(h) the keeping and the form of any records or other documents as may be necessary for the administration of this Act;

(i) the collection, provision, transfer, disclosure or use of information for the purposes of this Act;

(j) persons or classes of persons necessary to be prescribed for the purposes of this Act;

(k) penalties, not exceeding 10 penalty units, for contraventions of the regulations;

(l) prescribing a code of conduct for unregistered disability workers;

(m) prescribing services as exempt services;

(n) any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

(2) Regulations made under this Act—

(a) may be of limited or general application; and

(b) may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; and

(c) may provide in a specified case or class of case for the exemption of persons or things from any of the provisions of the regulations, whether unconditionally or on specified conditions, and either wholly or to such extent as is specified; and

(d) in the case of a regulation made under subsection (1)(j), may provide for different classes of member; and

(e) may confer powers or impose duties in connection with the regulations on any specified person or specified class of persons; and

(f) may apply, adopt or incorporate, with or without modification, any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method formulated, issued, prescribed or published by any person—

(i) wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations; or