Financial Intermediaries Act 1996

A regulation may make provision about—

the keeping of registers and records by the registrar; and

the filing or registration of documents, the time and way of submitting documents for filing or registration and the requirements with which documents filed with the registrar must comply; and

prescribing fees for the registration or exemption of societies and fees to be paid for a document filed, registered with or issued by the registrar or for an act or service required or authorised to be performed by the registrar; and

prescribing the way in which, the persons by whom, and the directions or requirements under which, forms are required or authorised to be signed, prepared or completed and generally regulating the signing, preparation and completion of forms; and

the calling of, conduct of, and procedure and voting at meetings required or authorised to be held, the number of persons forming a quorum at a meeting, the sending of notices of meetings to persons entitled to attend meetings, the filing with the registrar of notices of meetings and of resolutions passed at meetings; and

the proof of debts of a society, the time within which debts can or may be proved and generally regulating the proving of debts.

A regulation may provide that, if a document required to be filed with, or given to, the registrar is signed or filed or given on behalf of a person by the person’s agent duly authorised in writing, the original or a verified copy of the authority must be filed or given with, endorsed on or attached to the document.

A regulation may impose a maximum penalty of not more than 20 penalty units for a contravention of the regulation.

A power conferred by this section to make a regulation providing for the imposition of fees may be exercised by providing for all or any of the following matters—

specific fees;

maximum or minimum fees;

scales of fees;

the reduction, waiver or refund of fees.