The Regulations are narrowly focused and deploy a small set of legal concepts that structure their regulatory effect. Key concepts, as used in the text, are: "infringement offences", "penalty units", "fees" (expressed in fee units), the cross-reference to the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002 (the Act), and the administrative treatment of fees and notices.

"Infringement offences", as created here, are existing offences under named sections of the Act which, by Regulation 4(1) and Schedule 1, are prescribed to be dealt with by infringement notices. Regulation 4(2) specifies the enforcement mechanism for those offences in the context of this instrument: the penalty shown in Schedule 1 is "the penalty payable under an infringement notice issued and served for that infringement offence". The instrument therefore converts particular Act offences into civil-penalty style enforcement via infringement notices, with a fixed tariff stated in penalty units.

"Penalty units" are the unit measure used in Schedule 1 to express the monetary amount of the infringement penalty, recorded under Column 3 as "Penalty (Penalty units)". The Regulations do not define the dollar value of a penalty unit. The Schedule shows different penalty-unit amounts depending on whether the offender is a body corporate or a natural person, with multiple tiers present (for example 10/5, 4/2, 2/2 and standalone items of 5). The instrument therefore establishes differentiated penalties by offender class as a mechanical structure.

"Fees" appear in Schedule 2 and are expressed in "fee units". Each fee item links to a particular section of the Act (Column 2) and a description of the transaction (Column 3). Examples set out include application fees for an agent licence and for an employee licence (Schedule 2 item 1), fees for amendment of a licence (Schedule 2 item 2), duplicate licences and identity cards (item 3), inspection of the register of licences (item 4), applications for exemption from wearing an identity card (item 5), and provision of a copy of a code of conduct (item 6). The Regulations (Regulation 5) prescribe those fees "for the purposes of the Act", making the Schedule the operative fee list for dealings under the Act.

The interpretive device "Act" is defined in Regulation 3 as the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002, so all references in Schedules 1 and 2 to sections (for example "Section 6(2)(d)" in Schedule 2) must be read against that Act. The instrument does not re-state the substantive offences or licensing criteria; it operates only to classify offences as infringement offences and to set the administrative fee schedule.

Finally, the Regulations state procedural metadata: their short title (Regulation 1) and commencement date (Regulation 2). They also state that they are administered by the Department of Justice. The instrument references the Rules Publication Act 1953 for display and numbering, and includes the Gazette notification information, which are formal publication details rather than operational requirements.

In sum, the core mechanisms are: (a) conversion of named Act offences into infringement offences with specified penalty-unit amounts (Schedule 1); and (b) prescription of fee amounts (in fee units) for specified Act-related administrative transactions (Schedule 2), both anchored to the Act by the interpretive provision in Regulation 3.

The Regulations affect three discrete but overlapping groups by name and by implication: (1) persons and entities who commit the specified offences under the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002; (2) applicants and holders of licences and identity cards under the Act; and (3) the administrative body responsible for operation and enforcement, identified as the Department of Justice.

Offenders: Schedule 1 converts a set of enumerated Act provisions into infringement offences and attaches a penalty expressed in penalty units. The Schedule routinely differentiates penalties between bodies corporate and natural persons, indicating that both corporate entities and individuals who contravene the identified sections of the Act are directly affected. Examples from Schedule 1 include Section 4(1), Section 13(2), Section 21A(1), Section 26, Section 27A, Section 35B(1), and others. For many of these sections a higher penalty applies if the offender is a body corporate (for example 10 penalty units for a body corporate vs 5 for a natural person in several items), while other items have equal penalties for both classes (for example some entries show 2 penalty units for both body corporate and natural person). Those who breach the named sections must face the infringement notice process described mechanically in Regulation 4(2).

Licence applicants and licence holders: Schedule 2 prescribes fees tied to specific sections of the Act and to administrative transactions under the Act. Item 1 in Schedule 2 links to Section 6(2)(d) of the Act and differentiates fees depending on whether the application is for an agent licence (455 fee units) or an employee licence (120 fee units). Other recipients of the regulatory cost include persons seeking amendments of licences (Schedule 2 item 2, 35 fee units for s14A(2)(c)), persons requesting duplicate licences or identity cards (item 3, 35 fee units for s19), those inspecting the register of licences (item 4, 11 fee units for s20(3)), persons applying for an exemption from the requirement to wear an identity card (item 5, 35 fee units for s27(4)(b)), and persons seeking copies of a code of conduct or part of a code (item 6, 20 fee units for s38A(3)). The immediate financial burden of those fees falls on the applicant or requester.

Administrators and enforcement agents: The Regulations state they are administered in the Department of Justice, which makes the Department the relevant administrative body for implementation, fee collection and likely oversight. Regulation 4(2) refers to infringement notices as the vehicle by which penalties are payable; the Regulations do not name the issuing authority for infringement notices, but the mechanism is enabled by the Regulation's prescription.

Those indirectly affected include employers of licensed persons and industry participants in security and investigations services, who will experience compliance costs through licence application fees and possible exposure to their employees or corporate bodies receiving infringement notices if the underlying Act sections are breached. Because Schedule 1 differentiates between bodies corporate and natural persons for penalty allocation, corporate governance and compliance frameworks may need to be adjusted to manage the risk of higher penalties for corporate entities.

Finally, because the Regulations link their provisions to specific sections of the Act (Regulation 3 defines Act), any person seeking to understand whether they are affected must consult the Act provisions named in Schedules 1 and 2. The Regulations implement a cost and enforcement structure, but the substantive behavioural obligations and licensing criteria are set out in the principal Act rather than in this instrument.

The Regulations themselves do not create substantive licensing duties or behavioural prohibitions; they specify the administrative and enforcement consequences that attach to the relevant provisions of the principal Act. The key duties and rights created or affected by this instrument therefore fall into two categories: duties and liabilities arising from contraventions of the Act that have been prescribed as infringement offences (Regulation 4 and Schedule 1), and duties to pay prescribed fees (Regulation 5 and Schedule 2) in relation to particular administrative actions under the Act.

Duties and liabilities connected to infringement offences: Regulation 4(1) prescribes that offences against the sections of the Act listed in Schedule 1 are infringement offences. The immediate operative duty created by the Regulations is the duty to pay the penalty specified in Schedule 1 if an infringement notice is issued and served for the relevant infringement offence; Regulation 4(2) provides that the Schedule 1 penalty is "the penalty payable under an infringement notice issued and served for that infringement offence". That creates a procedural right on the part of the enforcement agency to issue an infringement notice with a tariffed penalty and a corresponding duty on the recipient to pay that penalty unless other procedures (in the Act) permit a different approach. The Regulations do not themselves create appeal or challenge routes; such rights, if any, will be within the Act or in general legal processes outside this instrument.

Differentiation by offender class is a central feature of the duties created: Schedule 1 frequently distinguishes penalties depending on whether the offender is a body corporate or a natural person (e.g. Section 4(1): 10 penalty units for a body corporate, 5 for a natural person). That creates a higher monetary duty for corporations in specified instances. The Schedule also includes items listed as standalone penalty units not split by offender class (for example Section 27B(2) - 5 penalty units), indicating a single tariff irrespective of corporate or individual status where so noted.

Fees and payment duties: Regulation 5 prescribes the fees in Schedule 2 "for the purposes of the Act". That makes payment of the listed fees a practical pre-condition for the relevant administrative actions under the Act. Schedule 2 identifies the precise fee unit amount attached to particular transactions, such as agent licence application (455 fee units) and employee licence application (120 fee units) under Section 6(2)(d). Persons applying for license-related activity therefore have a clear duty to pay the specified fee in order to effect the application or related administrative action. Other small administrative duties include paying 35 fee units for amendment of a licence (s14A(2)(c)), 35 fee units for a duplicate licence or identity card (s19), 11 fee units for inspection of the register of licences (s20(3)), 35 fee units for an exemption from requirement to wear an identity card (s27(4)(b)), and 20 fee units for provision of a copy of a code of conduct (s38A(3)).

Rights in the Regulations are negative and limited: those subject to an infringement notice will have the statutory processes available under the Act and general law to challenge or seek review, but the Regulations themselves only fix the payable penalty for an infringement notice. The Regulations do give regulated parties predictability about the cost of particular administrative actions (the Schedule 2 fees) and about the monetary penalty associated with specified infringement notices (Schedule 1 penalty units), which is a practical right to fee- and penalty-certainty.

Administrative discretion and duties: The Regulations do not set out the decision-making criteria for licences, nor the identity of the person or office with authority to issue infringement notices. They state administration is with the Department of Justice (administration duty identified). The Act will contain decision-making and procedural rights; these Regulations supplement that by setting the monetary scales for infringement notices and fees. Where the Schedule links a fee to a particular Act section, compliance requires paying that fee in accordance with the Act's processes.

In short, key duties created or shaped by the Regulations are the duty to pay the specified fee for certain Act-related transactions, and the duty to pay a set penalty when an infringement notice is issued for a prescribed infringement offence. The rights established by the instrument are principally the regulated party's entitlement to know the specified fee and penalty tariffs; any additional procedural rights (appeal, review, remission, or waiver) must be sought in the Act or elsewhere.

Penalty structure: The principal enforcement mechanism implemented by these Regulations is the infringement-notice mechanism. Regulation 4(1) prescribes as infringement offences the offences against the sections of the Act listed in Schedule 1. Regulation 4(2) provides that the penalty specified in column 3 of Schedule 1 is the penalty payable "under an infringement notice issued and served for that infringement offence". Schedule 1 therefore does not create new criminal convictions in this instrument but fixes the monetary penalty, expressed in penalty units, for contraventions listed.

The Schedule is structured to distinguish, for many entries, the penalty applicable if the offender is a body corporate versus if the offender is a natural person. Common patterns in the Schedule include a 10 penalty unit amount for bodies corporate paired with 5 penalty units for natural persons (for example Section 4(1), Section 13(2), Section 21A(1), Section 26, Section 27A, Section 27D, Section 35B(1), Section 35C(1)). Other offences attract lower tariffs (for example 4 penalty units for a body corporate and 2 for a natural person across several sections such as Section 17(1), Section 21, Section 22(1), Section 24(2), etc.). Several entries show uniform 2/2 penalty units or standalone 5 penalty units for certain subsections. The Schedule therefore establishes a graded tariff designed to assign higher monetary penalties to certain contraventions and, frequently, greater exposure for corporate entities.

Payment mechanism: The instrument specifies payment as "the penalty payable under an infringement notice issued and served" (Regulation 4(2)). The Regulations do not specify the time period for payment, methods of payment, or the issuing authority for an infringement notice; those procedural details will be located in the Act or in other instruments authorised by the Act. The Regulations therefore fix the quantum of the penalty but leave implementation mechanics to existing infringement-notice processes contemplated by the Act.

Administrative enforcement and fees: Regulation 5 prescribes fees set out in Schedule 2 as the fees "for the purposes of the Act". While fees are not penalties, failure to pay required fees may engage administrative consequences under the Act (for example refusal to process an application or inability to renew a licence). The Regulations do not themselves state consequences for non-payment of fees.

Enforcement authority and administration: The only administrative identification in the instrument is that the Regulations "are administered in the Department of Justice." The identity of the entity that issues an infringement notice, or which receives the fee payments, is not stated in the Regulations. Regulation 4(2) presumes there exists an enforcement regime capable of issuing and serving infringement notices; the Regulations attach the monetary tariff to that regime.

Constraints and limits recorded in the instrument: The monetary amounts are expressed in penalty units and fee units; the Regulations do not convert those units into dollar amounts. The Schedule sets the tariff by reference to penalty units and fee units, meaning that actual dollar liabilities will depend on the statutory value of a penalty or fee unit at the time of enforcement or payment, as governed outside this instrument. The Regulations also do not provide for indexation, reductions, remissions, or fee waivers; no such mechanisms are stated in the text.

In practical terms, enforcement under this instrument is limited to civil monetary sanction by infringement notice for the listed Act provisions, together with prescribed fees for administrative interactions under the Act. The instrument prescribes the scale of monetary obligation but does not set out procedural enforcement rules, timeframes for payment, or internal review mechanisms; those will rely on the Act or other administrative instruments.

The Regulations are a subordinate instrument tied directly to the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002 (Regulation 3: "Act means the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002"). All Schedule cross-references (for instance Schedule 2 item 1 referencing Section 6(2)(d) of the Act) must therefore be read in the context of that principal Act. The Regulations operate as a mechanism to implement the Act's administrative and enforcement architecture by prescribing fees and treating particular Act offences as infringement offences with fixed penalty-unit tariffs.

Reference to the Rules Publication Act 1953: The instrument includes a formal statement that the Schedules are "Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953", which is purely a procedural/publishing cross-reference required for correct legal drafting and Gazette publication; it does not itself change substantive rights or duties under the Act. The Gazette notification date (10 December 2025) and the commencement date (23 December 2025) set the temporal interaction between this instrument and other statutes or instruments.

Penalty units and fee units: The Regulations express penalties in "penalty units" and fees in "fee units". The Regulations do not define the monetary value of these units; that value and any rules for their interpretation are provided by other statutory instruments (not contained in this instrument). Therefore, in practice, the dollar consequences of the tariffed penalty/fee amounts depend on the external statutory framework that sets the value of penalty and fee units.

Overlap with the Act’s procedural provisions: Regulation 4(2) assumes the Act or another relevant law provides the authority and procedure for issuing and serving infringement notices. Where the Act provides criminal offences with potential court-based penalties, the conversion of particular sections to infringement offences by these Regulations could allow certain contraventions to be dealt with by infringement notices, subject to the Act's procedures about whether an offence is available both as an indictable/summary offence and as an infringement offence. That interplay (whether an Act offence remains available to be prosecuted in court or is only available as an infringement offence) will depend on the Act's text and any broader legislative framework on infringement notices, which are not restated in these Regulations.

Administrative law and review: The Regulations state administration lies with the Department of Justice; any decisions made under the Act involving fees, issuance of licences, or administrative processes will interact with administrative law remedies (judicial review, merits review where available) under the general law. The Regulations themselves do not create or limit review rights; those are matters for the Act or other statutes.

Temporal interaction: The Regulations commence on 23 December 2025. The substantive obligations in the Act to which the Schedules relate may pre-exist or post-date that commencement; compliance obligations for events after commencement will be shaped by the Act as amended and the operation of these Regulations from their commencement date forward. If the Act is amended after these Regulations are made, the regulatory schedules may need updating to maintain alignment; the Regulations list specific section references rather than generic descriptions, creating a maintenance interaction risk if section numbering or content is changed in the Act.

In summary, the Regulations are not standalone: they function as a fee and infringement-tariff adjunct to the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002, they depend on other statutes for the monetary value of units and procedural enforcement mechanics, and they will interact with general administrative and criminal law processes outside the text of this instrument.

The instrument as provided contains the following formal provenance details and no prior amendment record within the text. It is cited as the Security and Investigations Agents Regulations 2025 (Regulation 1). The instrument was "Notified in the Gazette on 10 December 2025" (final-notes line) and takes effect on 23 December 2025 (Regulation 2). The Schedules are displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953, which governs publication mechanics for subordinate instruments.

There is no internal amendment history or notes of replacement, revocation, or savings provisions contained in the text supplied. The Regulations do not record earlier versions or amendments, nor do they state that they replace a prior regulation. They also do not include a transitional or savings clause that preserves prior fees, penalties, or decisions taken under any earlier instrument. The only administrative history explicitly recorded is the Gazette notification date and the administrative responsibility statement (“These regulations are administered in the Department of Justice”).

Because the Schedules cross-reference specific sections of the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002, any amendment to those sections in the Act (renumbering, repeal, or alteration of offence content) will have an effect on the functioning of the Schedules. The Regulations themselves do not provide a mechanism for automatic amendment or indexation of the fee or penalty amounts should underlying statutes change; any revisions to penalty-unit amounts or fee units would require amendment to these Regulations or the relevant higher-level legislation that alters the unit values.

Practical note on amendment mechanics: as a subordinate instrument, these Regulations will be subject to the statutory processes that apply to subordinate legislation in the relevant jurisdiction (for example parliamentary disallowance or specific statutory publication requirements under the Rules Publication Act 1953). The instrument’s statement that it is administered by the Department of Justice identifies the Department as the body most likely to propose, draft or implement any prospective amendments, but the instrument itself contains no amendment schedule or future-dating mechanism.

In the absence of any recorded amending instrument or historical versions in the provided text, the Regulations should be treated as a new instrument commencing on 23 December 2025, with the fees and infringement lists operative from that date. For a complete legislative history (if required), one must consult the public legislative instruments register and the Gazette entries referenced by the Rules Publication Act 1953, neither of which are reproduced in this instrument.

The text of these Regulations contains no reference to case law, judicial interpretation, or prior litigation arising under the instrument. There are no reported proceedings, no citations to judicial decisions, and no notes that any provision has been dealt with in litigation. The instrument names no cases and includes no footnotes or legal analysis that would indicate how courts have interpreted any part of it.

Because these Regulations are administrative in nature and take effect on 23 December 2025, any litigation that might challenge their validity, their application, or the use of infringement notices will necessarily post-date commencement. The Regulations do not anticipate or prescribe judicial review or appeal procedures; those processes are governed by the principal Act and by general administrative law principles.

Users seeking any litigation history must therefore consult external legal databases or court records for cases involving the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002 where infringement notices or the particular fees listed have been challenged. The absence of litigation references in the text means the instrument itself provides no internal guidance on likely judicial interpretation or prior adjudication.

For the purposes of compliance and risk assessment, regulated parties cannot rely on precedent within this instrument. They should plan on the basis that enforcement by infringement notice and collection of the prescribed fees will be jurisdictionally available from the commencement date and that any substantive challenge to either would require proceedings commenced after that date and resolved in the courts or relevant tribunals.

Several operational and interpretive "gotchas" flow directly from the text. These are points where an unsuspecting practitioner, applicant, licence-holder or corporate entity could misread the instrument or encounter unintended effects if they do not consult the Act to which the Regulations refer.

1. The Regulations do not explain what the listed sections in Schedule 1 actually prohibit. Schedule 1 prescribes that contraventions of the listed sections of the Act are infringement offences and sets a penalty-unit tariff, but the Regulations do not reproduce the substantive offences. To know the conduct that attracts an infringement notice, a reader must consult the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002 (Regulation 3). The Schedule’s listing of section numbers without descriptive text means an implementer who relies only on the Regulations may misunderstand the scope of the infringement offences.

2. Penalty units are used, not dollar figures. Schedule 1 expresses penalties in "Penalty (Penalty units)" and Schedule 2 expresses fees in "fee units" (Column 4). The Regulations do not convert units into dollar amounts. Practitioners must therefore obtain the current statutory value of a penalty unit and of a fee unit elsewhere. The instrument therefore leaves an essential conversion step to external sources; failure to account for the current unit value will misstate the financial exposure.

3. Differentiation between corporate and individual liability. Many entries in Schedule 1 show higher penalty-unit amounts for bodies corporate than for natural persons (for example 10 vs 5 in several items). A corporate entity may face a higher monetary exposure than individual staff. Entities that assume the same exposure as employees or contractors will underestimate risk. Similarly, several items show the same penalty for both classes, so treat each item individually.

4. Fees are listed by reference to Act sections. Schedule 2 links each fee to an Act section (for example item 1 refers to s6(2)(d), agent vs employee licence fees). If the Act changes section numbering or the function of a section, the fee linkage may become mismatched. The Regulations do not include a catch-all description or a transitional provision to handle Act amendments.

5. No indexation, remission or waiver mechanism in the text. The Regulations prescribe fee and penalty-unit amounts but include no provision for indexation to inflation, remission for hardship, or administrative waivers. Any such discretion must therefore be found in the Act or in department policy. Absent a clear external policy, regulated parties should budget for paying the full prescribed fee or tariff unless the Act provides otherwise.

6. The issuing authority for infringement notices is not named. Regulation 4(2) presumes an infringement-notice process but does not specify who issues or serves such notices, timeframes for payment, dispensing with the notice, or the appeal route. These procedural matters are likely in the Act, but relying on the Regulations alone leaves a practitioner without process details.

7. Small fees for routine actions may be overlooked. Inspection of the register (11 fee units), copy of a code of conduct (20 fee units), and duplicate licence or ID card (35 fee units) are small individually but can add up across multiple staff or branch offices. Employers and franchisees should account for these recurring administrative costs when budgeting compliance.

8. Administration is assigned to the Department of Justice. While that identifies the relevant agency, the Regulations do not name the specific office within the Department that processes fees or handles enquiries. Practitioners should not assume the operational contact or fee receipt arrangements from the Regulations alone.

9. Commencement and Gazette timing: the Regulations were notified in the Gazette on 10 December 2025 and commence on 23 December 2025. There is a short gap between notification and commencement. Parties must check whether actions occurring in that window will attract the new fees/penalties and whether the Department has operational arrangements ready.

10. No internal transitional provisions. The Regulations do not state how fees or penalty presumptions apply to ongoing applications or pending enforcement actions that pre-date commencement. For transitional certainty, consult the Act and administrative guidance from the Department of Justice.

These "gotchas" are practical matters that follow directly from how the instrument is drafted: it prescribes tariffs and cross-references the principal Act but leaves substantive descriptions, monetary unit conversion and procedural details to other instruments or to administrative practice. Compliance planning therefore requires consulting the Act and Departmental guidance alongside these Regulations.

Compliance under these Regulations requires two discrete steps: (A) ensure that dealings under the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002 are accompanied by payment of the prescribed fee where Schedule 2 requires it; and (B) avoid contraventions of the Act provisions listed in Schedule 1 (or manage exposure to them), because those contraventions are chargeable by infringement notice with the specified penalty-unit tariffs.

Practical checklist tied to the text:

1. Read the Act sections named in Schedule 1 and Schedule 2. The Regulations use the shorthand "Act" (Regulation 3) and only reference section numbers. Compliance begins by consulting the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002 to identify the substantive obligations and the conduct that constitutes the offences or the circumstances in which a fee-eliciting transaction arises.

2. Budget for and pay the correct fee units. For licence applications:

   • If applying for an agent licence under Section 6(2)(d) of the Act, expect to pay 455 fee units (Schedule 2 item 1(a)).
   • If applying for an employee licence under the same section, expect to pay 120 fee units (Schedule 2 item 1(b)).
   • For amendment of a licence under s14A(2)(c), pay 35 fee units (Schedule 2 item 2).
   • For a duplicate licence or identity card under s19, pay 35 fee units (Schedule 2 item 3).
   • For inspection of the register of licences under s20(3), pay 11 fee units (Schedule 2 item 4).
   • For an exemption from the requirement to wear an identity card under s27(4)(b), pay 35 fee units (Schedule 2 item 5).
   • For provision of a copy of a code of conduct under s38A(3), pay 20 fee units (Schedule 2 item 6).

   Confirm the current monetary value of a fee unit and the Department’s payment procedures before submitting an application (the Regulations state fees are prescribed by Schedule 2 for the purposes of the Act, Regulation 5).

3. Treat Schedule 1 infringements with immediate attention. Schedule 1 sets the infringement tariff in penalty units. If an infringement notice is served for a listed Act offence, the penalty payable will be the amount in Column 3 of Schedule 1 (Regulation 4(2)). Note the differentiation by offender class,corporate entities often face higher penalty units.

4. Maintain corporate compliance systems to mitigate corporate exposure. Because the tariff often imposes higher liability on bodies corporate (Schedule 1 many items), entities should institute record-keeping, training, and supervisory practices aligned to the named Act sections to reduce the risk of receiving an infringement notice.

5. Plan operationally for small recurring administrative costs. The modest fees for register inspection, duplicate cards, and code copies can accumulate across multiple staff or locations. Budget accordingly.

6. Check for procedural rules in the Act. The Regulations fix the monetary tariffs but do not set payment timeframes, appeal mechanics, or the issuing entity for infringement notices. Consult the Act and any Department of Justice guidelines to confirm the process for notice issuance, payment deadlines, contesting the notice, or seeking remission where available.

7. Confirm whether fee and penalty-unit values are current. The Regulations use units but do not give dollar conversions or indexation provisions. Before payment, obtain the value of a fee unit or penalty unit applicable at the time.

8. Monitor Act amendments. Because the Schedules link to specific sections of the Act (Regulation 3), any amendment that renumbers, repeals or alters a referenced section may change whether an offence is correctly captured or whether a fee applies. Incorporate a legislative monitoring step into compliance workflows.

9. Contact the Department of Justice for administrative queries. The Regulations specify administration by the Department of Justice; for operational matters (where to pay fees, who issues infringement notices, forms to use) confirm the Department’s published instructions or contact the Department directly.

10. Time your filings in light of commencement. These Regulations commence on 23 December 2025 (Regulation 2). For applications or conduct straddling the commencement date, verify whether the new fees or infringement classifications apply to pre-commencement activity by consulting the Act or Department guidance.

In short, compliance under these Regulations is largely administrative: pay the notified fee units for the relevant Act transactions, be aware that particular Act provisions are now subject to infringement-notice penalties expressed in penalty units, and consult the Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002 and the Department of Justice for process, payment mechanics, and any available review or dispute routes.