Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BANKRUPTCY ACT 1966 - SECT 315

             (1)  The Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters:

                     (a)  required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

                     (b)  necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

             (2)  In particular, the regulations may:

                     (a)  provide for the establishment, maintenance, correction and inspection of the National Personal Insolvency Index; and

                     (b)  specify matters that must be, or may be, entered in the Index; and

                     (c)  provide for the obtaining of extracts of material entered in the Index; and

                     (d)  provide for the use of extracts of material entered in the Index in evidence in proceedings under this Act and other laws of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; and

                     (e)  provide for immunity from actions for defamation arising out of publication of material in the Index or publication of extracts of material from the Index; and

                      (f)  provide for information and documents to be given to persons for entry in the Index; and

                     (g)  provide for the means of service of documents; and

                     (h)  provide for the publication of notice of specified events; and

                      (j)  provide for the charging and payment of fees, but not the setting of amounts of fees other than fees mentioned in paragraph 81(17)(b), in relation to:

                              (i)  proceedings under this Act; and

                             (ii)  inspection of material entered in the Index or the Register of Trustees; and

                            (iii)  obtaining extracts of material entered in the Index or the Register of Trustees; and

                            (iv)  inspection and copying of documents given to Official Receivers; and

                             (v)  the making of other requests or applications under this Act or the presentation or lodgment of other documents under this Act; and

                     (k)  prescribe penalties not exceeding 50 penalty units for offences against the regulations; and

                      (l)  provide for a person who is alleged to have committed an offence against the regulations to pay a penalty to the Commonwealth as an alternative to prosecution (being a penalty not exceeding one-fifth of the maximum fine that a court could impose on the person for that offence).