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A NEW TAX SYSTEM (FAMILY ASSISTANCE) (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 235 Regulations

A NEW TAX SYSTEM (FAMILY ASSISTANCE) (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 235

Regulations

  (1)   The Governor - General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters:

  (a)   required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

  (b)   necessary or convenient for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

Offences and civil penalties

  (1A)   Without limiting subsection   (1), the regulations may:

  (a)   prescribe penalties for offences against the regulations that do not exceed a fine of 10 penalty units; and

  (b)   declare that specified provisions of the regulations are civil penalty provisions, and prescribe penalties for contraventions of such provisions that do not exceed:

  (i)   for a body corporate--250 penalty units; or

  (ii)   in any other case--50 penalty units.

Fees

  (2)   Without limiting subsection   (1), the regulations may prescribe fees for the making of applications under section   194 or 207. Any such fees must not be such as to amount to taxation.

Proof of making of claims etc.

  (3)   Without limiting subsection   (1), if a provision of the family assistance law provides that the Secretary or another officer may approve:

  (a)   the form or manner of making or withdrawing any application or claim; or

  (b)   the way of doing any other thing that is required or permitted to be done for the purposes of that law;

the regulations may make provision for the proof of the making or withdrawing of the application or claim, or the doing of the other thing, for the purposes of any legal proceedings.

Date of effect of review decisions

  (4)   Without limiting subsection   (1), the regulations may provide that specified decisions by:

  (a)   the Secretary under any provision of this Act; or

  (b)   an authorised review officer or the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, under Part   5;

that have the effect of creating or increasing an entitlement to be paid family tax benefit by instalment, only have effect from a specified day before the making of the decisions.

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