Guardianship and Administration Act 2019

The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—

prescribing annual fees to be paid in relation to estates which are the subject of an administration order; and

any matter or thing authorised or required to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed for carrying this Act into effect.

Regulations under this Act—

may be of general or of specially limited application; and

may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; and

may impose a penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units for any contravention of the regulations.

Regulations made under subsection (1)(b)—

may prescribe fees in relation to a particular class or classes of estates only; and

may prescribe different fees in relation to different classes of estates; and

may authorise VCAT to waive fees in particular cases or classes of cases.

Before the Governor in Council may make regulations under subsection (1)(b), the Minister must advise the Governor in Council that the Minister—

has consulted the President of VCAT; and

is of the opinion that the fees to be charged in the proposed regulations will not result in an amount of fees being collected in any year that will exceed the amount required to meet the costs and expenses of VCAT in relation to proceedings under this Act in that year.