Infringements Act 2006

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

prescribing forms of infringement notices, including short forms of infringement notices and the circumstances in which various forms of infringement notice may be used; and

prescribing processes, systems, the conduct of and other matters relating to, the internal review by enforcement agencies of the issuing and enforcement of infringement notices; and

prescribing forms, including composite forms; and

prescribing information required under this Act; and

prescribing an alternative method to give or serve documents required to be given or served under this Act; and

other fees, costs and charges under this Act; and

generally prescribing any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

A power conferred by subsection (1) to make regulations providing for the imposition of fees may be exercised by providing for all or any of the following matters—

specific fees;

maximum fees;

minimum fees;

fees that vary according to value or time;

the manner of payment of fees;

the time or times at which fees are to be paid.

Regulations made under this Act may—

be of limited or general application; and

leave any matter or thing to be decided by a specified person or class of person; and

provide for the exemption of persons or proceedings or a class of persons or proceedings from any of the regulations providing for the imposition of fees; and

provide for the reduction, waiver or refund, in whole or in part, of the fees, costs and charges fixed by regulation under this section; and

provide, in specified circumstances, for the reinstatement or payment, in whole or in part, of any fee, cost or charge reduced, waived or refunded by the regulations.

Without limiting subsection (3), if the regulations provide for a reduction, waiver or refund, in whole or in part, of a fee, cost or charge pursuant to subsection (3), the reduction, waiver or refund—

may be expressed to apply either generally or specifically—

in respect of certain matters or classes of matters;

in respect of certain persons or classes of persons;

in respect of a specified enforcement agency or class of enforcement agency;

for a specified period or periods or from a specified commencement date to a specified expiry date;

in respect of any combination of the matters referred to in paragraphs (i) to (vi);

may be subject to specified conditions.