21Regulations

#### 21 Regulations (1) The Governor‑General may make regulations prescribing matters: (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act. (2) Before the Governor‑General makes a regulation prescribing a law of the Commonwealth for the purposes of paragraph 8(1)(e), the Minister must be satisfied that the law to be prescribed gives effect to an agreement between Australia and one or more foreign countries or international organisations. (3) A regulation may make provision relating to: (a) the consultation by borrowing institutions, or their parents, of members of communities, or organisations representing them, about proposed loans of objects relating to those communities to the institutions or parents by lenders or exhibition facilitators; and (b) the consultation by borrowing institutions, or their parents, of persons or bodies responsible for archives of States or Territories about proposed loans of objects relevant to those archives to the institutions or parents by lenders or exhibition facilitators; and (c) the publication of information by borrowing institutions or their parents about objects proposed to be lent to them by lenders or exhibition facilitators; and (d) the action to be taken by a borrowing institution, or a parent of a borrowing institution, if it becomes aware of an act or event: (i) that relates to an object to which Part 2 applies in connection with the institution; and (ii) that the institution or parent believes may be or lead to a contravention of Part 2; and (e) the giving to the Minister of reports on activities of borrowing institutions relevant to the operation of this Act or a regulation in a financial year by the next 31 October after the financial year; and (f) the giving to the Minister of other reports relevant to the operation of this Act or a regulation. This does not limit subsection (1).