Local Government Act 2020

The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to any 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 this Act to make regulations may be exercised—

either in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to specified exceptions, or in relation to any specified case or class of case; and

so as to make, as respects the cases in relation to which the power is exercised—

the same provision for all cases in relation to which the power is exercised, or different provision for different cases or classes of case, or different provisions for the same case or class of case for different purposes; or

any such provision either unconditionally or subject to any specified condition.

Regulations made under this Act may be made—

so as to apply—

at all times or at a specified time; or

throughout the whole of the State or in a specified part of the State; or

as specified in both subparagraphs (i) and (ii); and

so as to require a matter affected by the regulations to be—

in accordance with a specified standard or specified requirement; or

approved by or to the satisfaction of a specified person or body or a specified class of persons or bodies; and

so as to apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method formulated, issued, prescribed or published by any authority or body whether—

wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations; or

as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the regulations are made or at any time before then; or

as formulated, issued, prescribed or published from time to time; and

so as to leave any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied, dispensed with or regulated by any government department, Council or public authority or any officer thereof; and

so as to confer powers or impose duties in connection with the regulations on any government department, Council or public authority or any officer thereof; and

so as to apply, adopt or incorporate, with or without modification, the provisions of any Act or of any regulations made under any Act as in force at a particular time; and

so as to provide in a specified case or class of case for the exemption of persons or things or a class of persons or things from any of the provisions of the regulations, whether unconditionally or on specified conditions and either wholly or to such an extent as is specified; and

so as to impose a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units for a contravention of the regulations.

If under subsection (3)(c)(iii) a regulation has applied, adopted or incorporated any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method as formulated, issued, prescribed or published from time to time and that document, code, standard, rule, specification or method is at any time amended, until the Minister causes notice to be published in the Government Gazette of that amendment, the document, code, standard, rule, specification or method is to be taken to have not been so amended.

A power conferred by this Act 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 or minimum fees;

maximum and minimum fees;

scales of fees according to the value of goods or services provided for the fees;

the payment of fees either generally or under specified conditions or in specified circumstances;

the reduction, waiver or refund, in whole or in part, of the fees.

If under subsection (5)(f) regulations provide for a reduction, waiver or refund, in whole or in part, of a fee, the reduction, waiver or refund may be expressed to apply either generally or specifically—

in respect of certain matters or transactions or classes of matters or transactions; or

in respect of certain documents or classes of documents; or

when an event happens; or

in respect of certain persons or classes of persons; or

in respect of any combination of matters, transactions, documents, events or persons—

A fee that may be imposed by regulation is not limited to an amount that is related to the cost of providing a service.

Any regulations made under this Act for or with respect to the issuing of film permits must not be inconsistent with the film friendly principles.

Regulations made under this Act may be disallowed in whole or in part by resolution of either House of Parliament in accordance with the requirements of section 23(2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994 which disallowance is deemed disallowance by Parliament for the purposes of that Act.