Regulations and fee notices
76 Regulations and fee notices
The
Governor may make such regulations as are contemplated by this Act, or as are necessary or expedient for the purposes of this Act.
Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may—
prescribe, or provide for the calculation of, any costs or charges for the purposes of this Act; or
exempt any person or class of persons from the obligation to pay costs, fees or charges prescribed under this Act; or
prescribe penalties, not exceeding $5 000, for breach of, or non‑compliance with, a regulation.
The
Minister may prescribe fees for the purposes of this Act by fee notice under the Legislation
(Fees) Act 2019.
A fee notice may provide for the waiver, reduction or remission of fees.
The regulations may—
be of general or limited application; and
make different provision according to the persons, things or circumstances to which they are expressed to apply; and
provide that a specified provision of this Act does not apply, or applies with prescribed variations, to any person, circumstance or situation (or person, circumstance or situation of a prescribed class) specified by the regulations, subject to any condition to which the regulations are expressed to be subject; and
provide that any matter or thing is to be determined, dispensed with, regulated or prohibited according to the discretion of the Minister, the Chief Recovery Officer or another prescribed person.
The regulations may make provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the commencement of any provisions of this Act or the amendment of this Act by another Act (including provisions of a transitional nature modifying any provisions of this Act).
A provision made by a regulation under subsection (4) that is consequent on the amendment of this Act by another Act—
may be in addition to any provision of a saving or transitional nature made by the Act that makes the amendment; and
may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the commencement of the amendment or from a later day.
To the extent to which a provision takes effect under subsection (5)(b) from a day earlier than the day of the publication of the regulation in the Gazette, the provision does not operate to the disadvantage of a person by—
decreasing the person's rights; or
imposing liabilities on the person.
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