Victorian Numbered Acts

JUSTICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (SYSTEM ENHANCEMENTS AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 2021 (NO. 11 OF 2021) - SECT 103

For section 139 of the Powers of Attorney Act 2014 substitute —

        "     139     Regulations

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

        (a)     requirements for remote witnessing procedures and the duties of witnesses and principals, including, but not limited to, different requirements for—

              (i)     different documents or classes of document; or

              (ii)     different witnesses or classes of witness; or

              (iii)     different principals or classes of principal; or

              (iv)     different forms or processes for the use of electronic signatures or the use or form of documents in electronic formats;

        (b)     forms;

        (c)     fees;

        (d)     persons or classes of person to be special witnesses;

        (e)     prescribing penalties not exceeding 20 penalty units for a contravention of the regulations;

        (f)     any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed 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)     leave any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied, dispensed with or regulated by a specified person;

        (d)     provide in a specified case or class of cases for the exemption of persons or things or a class of persons or things from any of the provisions of the regulations whether—

              (i)     unconditionally or on specified conditions; and

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