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158 Regulations
(1) The Administrator may make regulations under this Act.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Regulations
may:
(a) prescribe that provisions of this Act do not apply to a specified
class of tenancy agreements or a specified class of premises;
and
(b) modify specified provisions of this Act in their application to a
specified class of tenancy agreements or a specified class of
premises; and
(c) prescribe terms that are to be implied, or expressly included,
in tenancy agreements or a class of tenancy agreements; and
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(d) prescribe a penalty of not more than 20 penalty units for
breach of a regulation; and
(e) prescribe an offence against the Regulations to be a
regulatory offence; and
(f) provide for the payment of a prescribed amount instead of a
penalty that may otherwise be imposed for an offence against
this Act or regulations made under this Act and for the service
of a notice relating to payment of the amount on a person
alleged to have committed the offence and the particulars to
be included in that notice; and
(g) prescribe the service of notices on persons alleged to have
infringed this Act or the Regulations and particulars to be
included in such notices.