759Regulations

759 Regulations

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

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

(b) prescribing fees for the purposes of this Act;

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

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

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

S. 759(1)(ea) inserted by No. 44/2025 s. 49.

(ea) prescribing purposes and circumstances for the purposes of section 728(2)(h);

(f) prescribing the remuneration and allowances of Tribunal members, including remuneration and allowances that differ for different classes of Tribunal member;

(g) prescribing entities or classes of entity to be specified service providers or emergency service providers;

(h) prescribing types of health information for the purposes of sharing it with emergency service providers;

(i) prescribing circumstances triggering a notification to the primary non-legal mental health advocacy service provider;

(j) generally prescribing 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) The regulations may—

(a) be of limited or general application; and

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

(c) confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on a specified person or a specified class of person; and

(d) 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

(e) in the case of a regulation made under subsection (1)(f), provide for different classes of member whether or not those classes are the same as the classes referred to in Chapter 7; and

(f) 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

(ii) as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the regulations are made or at any time before then; or

(iii) as formulated, issued, prescribed or published from time to time; and