Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if an Act or statutory instrument (the authorising law ) authorises or requires provision to be made about a matter by statutory instrument.
(2) A statutory instrument made under the authorising law may make provision about the matter by authorising or requiring a stated entity to make provision about the matter, or any aspect of the matter, whether or not from time to time.
(3) This section is a determinative provision.
Note See s 5 for the meaning of determinative provisions, and s 6 for their displacement.
(4) In this section:
"provision", for a matter, includes determining or regulating the matter, applying the instrument to the matter, being satisfied or forming an opinion about anything relating to the matter, or doing anything else in relation to the matter.
Example
If an Act provides that an application is to be in a prescribed form, a regulation made under the Act may provide that the form is to be a form approved by the Minister.
Note An example is part of the Act, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see s 126 and s 132).