Commons Management Act 1989

The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

In particular, the regulations may make provision for or with respect to the following:

the qualifications required for persons to be commoners,

the keeping of commoners’ rolls, including the entry of names on, and the removal of names from, commoners’ rolls,

the preparation, public display, adoption and implementation of management plans,

the purposes for which a trust may grant temporary licences and the conditions, restrictions and limitations which are required or permitted to be attached to such licences,

the qualifications for election as a member of a trust board and the procedure for the conduct of an election of members of a trust board and an election of office bearers from among those members,

the convening of meetings of a trust board and the conduct of business at those meetings,

the convening of general meetings of commoners and the conduct of business at those meetings,

the qualifications of persons for appointment or election as auditors of trusts,

the nomination of persons for appointment or election as auditors,

the calling of public meetings for the purposes of section 26 and the conduct of business at those meetings,

the holding of inquiries for the purposes of section 48 or 51,

the matters required to be included in the annual report of a trust,

the custody and use of a trust’s common seal,

the dissolution of a trust and the disposal of its property.

A regulation may create an offence punishable by a maximum penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units.