New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANATOMY ACT 1977 - SECT 17

17 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2) Without affecting the generality of subsection (1), the Governor may make regulations for or with respect to:

(a) the manner in which an application for a licence shall be made,

(b) the duties of inspectors, and

(c) hygiene in relation to the transport, possession and examination of bodies for the purposes of this Act, and

(d) the standards to be complied with in connection with anything authorised by or under this Act, including by requiring those standards to be complied with as a condition of an authority conferred by or under this Act.

(2A) The regulations may apply, adopt or incorporate, wholly or in part and with or without modification, any guidelines or other document (such as a code of practice), as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time, prescribed or published by the National Health and Medical Research Council or by any other person or body.

(3) A regulation may be made so as to apply differently according to such factors as are specified in the regulation.

(4) A regulation may impose a penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units for any contravention thereof.