Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) The Governor-General may not make regulations prescribing a State or Territory for the purposes of section 15A, 15B or 15C (in this subsection called the relevant section ) unless the Governor-General is satisfied that any conduct that, immediately before the making of the regulations, is an offence against the relevant section is also an offence against a law of that State or Territory.