Partnership Act 1963
101Regulation-making power
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101 Regulation-making power (1) The Executive may make regulations for this Act. (2) A regulation may deal with the following: (a) the keeping of records by an incorporated limited partnership; (b) information or copies of records or documents required to be given to the commissioner for fair trading by an incorporated limited partnership. (3) A regulation may exempt, or provide for the exemption of, any person, matter or thing from this Act. (4) A regulation may make provision about a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating (with or without change) a standard, or a provision of a standard, as in force from time to time. (5) The Legislation Act, section 47 (6) does not apply in relation to an Australian Standard, or an Australian/New Zealand Standard, applied, adopted or incorporated under a regulation.
(6) A regulation may prescribe— (a) offences for contraventions of a regulation; and (b) maximum penalties of not more than 10 penalty units for offences against a regulation.
(see s 2) Note 1 The Legislation Act contains definitions and other provisions relevant to this Act. Note 2 For example, the Legislation Act, dict, pt 1, defines the following terms: • ACT • commissioner for fair trading • exercise • function • notifiable instrument • property • public servant • registrar-general • territory law • under. assets, for division 6.6 (Winding-up of incorporated limited partnership)—see section 76. business includes a trade, occupation or profession. external partnership—see section 51. firm means— (a) for a partnership other than an incorporated limited partnership—the collective name for the people who have entered the partnership with one another; and (b) for an incorporated limited partnership—the partnership as a separate legal entity and not the partners in the partnership. firm name— (a) for a firm other than an incorporated limited partnership— means the name under which the firm’s business is carried on; and
(b) for an incorporated limited partnership—see section 51; and (c) for an external partnership—see section 51. general partner—see section 51. incorporated limited partnership—see section 51. liability, for part 6 (Incorporated limited partnerships)—see section 51. limited partner, for part 6 (Incorporated limited partnerships)—see section 51. partner, for an incorporated limited partnership—see section 51. partnership—see section 6. partnership property— (a) of a firm other than an incorporated limited partnership—see section 24; and (b) of an incorporated limited partnership—see section 24A. register, for part 6 (Incorporated limited partnerships)—see section 60. registered information, for part 6 (Incorporated limited partnerships)—see section 59 (4) (Registration of incorporated limited partnership). special resolution, for part 6 (Incorporated limited partnerships)— see section 51.
About the endnotes 1 1 About the endnotes Amending and modifying laws are annotated in the legislation history and the amendment history. Current modifications are not included in the republished law but are set out in the endnotes. Not all editorial amendments made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 are annotated in the amendment history. Full details of any amendments can be obtained from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office. Uncommenced amending laws are not included in the republished law. The details of these laws are underlined in the legislation history. Uncommenced expiries are underlined in the legislation history and amendment history. If all the provisions of the law have been renumbered, a table of renumbered provisions gives details of previous and current numbering. The endnotes also include a table of earlier republications. 2 Abbreviation key A = Act NI = Notifiable instrument AF = Approved form o = order am = amended om = omitted/repealed amdt = amendment ord = ordinance AR = Assembly resolution orig = original ch = chapter par = paragraph/subparagraph CN = Commencement notice pres = present def = definition prev = previous DI = Disallowable instrument (prev...) = previously dict = dictionary pt = part disallowed = disallowed by the Legislative r = rule/subrule Assembly reloc = relocated div = division renum = renumbered exp = expires/expired R[X] = Republication No Gaz = gazette RI = reissue hdg = heading s = section/subsection IA = Interpretation Act 1967 sch = schedule ins = inserted/added sdiv = subdivision LA = Legislation Act 2001 SL = Subordinate law LR = legislation register sub = substituted LRA = Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 underlining = whole or part not commenced mod = modified/modification or to be expired