Victorian Current Acts

SERVICE VICTORIA ACT 2018 - SECT 58

    (1)     The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to any matter required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

    (2)     Regulations made under this section may—

        (a)     be of general or limited application;

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

        (c)     confer a discretionary power or authority or impose a duty on a specified person or body or a class of person or body;

        (d)     exempt specified persons or things or classes of person or classes of thing from complying with all or any of the regulations—

              (i)     whether unconditionally or on specified conditions; and

              (ii)     either wholly or to such an extent as is specified;

        (e)     apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document whether—

              (i)     wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations; or

              (ii)     as in force at a particular time; or

              (iii)     as in force from time to time.

    (3)     Without limiting the requirements of section 5 or  10, the Minister must not recommend to the Governor in Council the making of a regulation—

        (a)     for the purposes of section 5 prescribing as a transferred customer service function a customer service function of a service agency which is a Council; or

        (b)     for the purposes of section 10 prescribing as a transferred identity verification function an identity verification function of a service agency which is a Council—

unless the Minister has obtained the prior agreement to that transfer of the relevant Council or Councils whose functions are to be transferred.

S. 58(4) inserted by No. 5/2024 s. 33.

    (4)     The Minister must not recommend to the Governor in Council the making of a regulation for the purposes of section 54(2)—

        (a)     prescribing an entity as an entity to which the Service Victoria CEO may disclose regulated information; or

        (b)     prescribing a purpose as a purpose for which the Service Victoria CEO may disclose regulated information—

unless the Minister has consulted the Information Commissioner on the proposed regulation.

Pt 9 (Heading and ss 59, 60) inserted by No. 6/2022 s. 33.

Part 9—Transitional provisions

S. 59 inserted by No. 6/2022 s. 33, repealed by No. 5/2024 s. 12.

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S. 60 inserted by No. 6/2022 s. 33.