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INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 - SECT 65

Regulations

    (1)     The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—

        (a)     exempting an entity or a class of entity or a document (including an Act, a statutory rule or any other subordinate instrument) or class of document from the application of section 38M;

        (b)     prescribing matters relating to the location or format of electronic publication under section 38M;

        (c)     any matter or thing required to be prescribed by this Act or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

    (2)     The regulations may—

        (a)     be of general or limited application;

        (b)     differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance;

        (c)     apply to different classes of entities or documents;

        (d)     leave any matter or thing to be from time to time determined or approved by a specified entity;

        (e)     confer powers or discretions or impose duties on any specified entity or class of entity;

        (f)     provide in a specified case or class of cases for the exemption of entities or documents or a class of entity or document from any provision of the regulations—

              (i)     whether unconditionally or on specified conditions; and

              (ii)     either wholly or to the extent specified in the regulations.

    (3)     A power conferred by this Act to make regulations may be exercised—

        (a)     in relation to—

              (i)     all cases to which the power extends; or

              (ii)     all those cases subject to specified exceptions; or

              (iii)     any specified case or class of case; and

        (b)     so as to make, in relation to any provision for which the power is exercised—

              (i)     the same provision for all cases; or

              (ii)     different provisions for different cases or classes of case; or

              (iii)     different provisions for the same case or class of case for different purposes.

Sch. 1 inserted by No. 2/2007 s. 6.



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