New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 267

267 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) If--

(a) alteration of a form in the Schedules to this Act is necessary, or

(b) the time allowed to do any act is insufficient, and that extension of time (and any alteration of dates consequent on that extension) is necessary,

the regulations or the Governor, by notification in the Gazette, may make that alteration or declare the extension of time concerned.

(3) A regulation may create an offence punishable by a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units.