Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1975 No. 55 of 1975 - SECT 112

112. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be
prescribed by the regulations, or which are necessary or convenient to be
prescribed by the regulations for carrying out or giving effect to this Act,
and making provision for, or with respect to-

   (a)  the application of Division 6 of Part V to and in relation to an
        employee who-

        (i)    has been in continuous employ of the Commission for a period of
               not less than one year; or

        (ii)   has been engaged by the Commission to serve for a period of not
               less than one year,

including provisions modifying and adapting the provisions of that Division in
relation to such an employee;

   (b)  the preservation of specified existing and accruing rights by a person
        appointed to the office of Managing Director, Chief General Manager or
        full-time Chairman of a Promotions Appeal Board or by a person
        appointed or deemed to have been appointed as an officer who was,
        immediately before he was so appointed, an officer of the Australian
        Public Service or a person to whom the Officers' Rights Declaration
        Act 1928-1975 applied, including provisions modifying and adapting the
        Public Service Act 1922-1975 for the purpose of enabling such a person
        to apply for promotion to an office in the Australian Public Service
        or appeal against a promotion to an office in that Service;

   (c)  the payment of the costs in proceedings before a Disciplinary Appeal
        Board, and the assessment of those costs;

   (d)  the sending over a telecommunications service of indecent, obscene or
        offensive communications, or the use of a telecommunications service
        for the purpose of harassing a person; and

   (e)  penalties by way of a fine not exceeding $200 or imprisonment not
        exceeding 6 months, or both, for offences against the regulations.
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