Victorian Numbered Acts

OATHS AND AFFIRMATIONS ACT 2018 (NO. 6 OF 2018) - SECT 52

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

        (a)     prescribing forms or information for the purposes of this Act;

        (b)     prescribing fees for the purposes of this Act;

        (c)     prescribing persons or classes of persons as administering officers;

        (d)     prescribing persons or classes of persons as authorised affidavit takers;

        (e)     prescribing persons or classes of persons as statutory declaration witnesses;

        (f)     prescribing persons or classes of persons as authorised certifiers;

        (g)     prescribing procedures to facilitate electronic communication of documents to which this Act applies, including but not limited to the appending of electronic signatures;

        (h)     prescribing procedures for the use of interpreters in relation to anything done under this Act;

              (i)     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 circumstances;

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

        (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—

              (i)     whether unconditionally or on specified conditions; and

              (ii)     either wholly or to any extent that is specified;

        (e)     impose a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units for a contravention of the regulations.

Part 7—Transitional provisions, repeals and consequential amendments

Division 1—Repeals and transitional provisions