197EGuidelines

197E Guidelines

The Minister or Ministers referred to in section 197C(2) may issue guidelines providing for mechanisms, processes and procedures to be adopted for the purposes of section 197B.

Part 8—General

Division 1—Regulations

198 Regulations

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

(2) The regulations—

(a) may be of general or specially limited application;

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

(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.

S. 198(3) inserted by No. 51/2014 s. 9(Sch. 2 item 19.3).

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

Division 2—Miscellaneous