98Regulations

98 Regulations

(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to any matter required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

(2) The regulations may—

(a) be of general or limited application;

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

(c) may leave any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied, dispensed with or regulated by a specified person or class of persons;

(d) may provide in a specified case or class of case for the exemption of persons or things or a class of persons or things from any of the provisions of the regulations, whether unconditionally or on specified conditions and either wholly or to the extent specified;

(e) may confer powers or impose duties in connection with the regulations on any specified person or specified class of persons;

(f) may 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;

(g) may impose a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units for a contravention of the regulations.

(3) Any regulations made under this section for or with respect to the issuing of film permits must not be inconsistent with the film friendly principles.

Part 6—Savings, transitionals and related provisions

Division 1—Preliminary

99 Definitions

In this Part—

Administrative Office has the same meaning as in the Public Administration Act 2004;

Administrative Office Head has the same meaning as in the Public Administration Act 2004;

allocation statement means an allocation statement made under section 102;

commencement day means the day on which section 8 comes into operation;

Crown instrument means an instrument (including a legislative instrument other than this Act) subsisting immediately before the relevant date—