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184 Regulations
(1) The Governor in Council may on the recommendation of the Commission make regulations for or with respect to any matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.
(2) The regulations—
(a) may be of general or limited application; and
(b) may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; and
(c) may impose penalties not exceeding 10 penalty units for a contravention of or an offence under the regulations; and
(d) may apply, adopt or incorporate (with or without modification) the provisions of any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method formulated, issued, prescribed or published by any person or body whether as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the regulations are made, or at any time before then; and
(e) may leave any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied, dispensed with or regulated by the Commission; and
(f) may confer powers or impose duties in connection with the regulations on the Commission.
(3) The regulations may include savings, transitional or consequential provisions to facilitate the transition from **The Constitution Act Amendment Act 1958** to this Act.
(4) The regulations are subject to disallowance by a House of the Parliament.