Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NORFOLK ISLAND ACT 1979 - SECT 67

             (1)  The Governor‑General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act and, in particular:

                     (a)  making provision for and in relation to sittings of the Supreme Court in a State or in a Territory other than Norfolk Island for the purpose of hearing and determining a matter, otherwise than in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, if a Judge is satisfied that the hearing of the matter outside the Territory is not contrary to the interests of justice; and

                     (b)  prescribing penalties, not exceeding a fine of $500 or imprisonment for 3 months, for offences against the regulations.

             (2)  The regulations may repeal or alter any item in, or add any new item to, Schedule 2 or 3, but:

                     (a)  regulations repealing or altering an item in Schedule 2 shall not be made except after:

                              (i)  a copy of the proposed regulations has been laid before the Legislative Assembly; and

                             (ii)  the Legislative Assembly has passed a resolution approving the proposed regulations; and

                     (b)  regulations made by virtue of this subsection reducing the scope of the matters specified in Schedule 3 do not have the effect of reducing the scope of the matters specified in Schedules 2 and 3.

             (3)  A reference in subsection (2) to a Schedule shall be read as including a reference to that Schedule as varied from time to time by regulations made by virtue of that subsection.