ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 150 of 1989 - SECT 201 Regulations

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 150 of 1989 - SECT 201

201. (1) The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act, the Regional Council election rules or the zone election rules,
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) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may:

   (a)  provide for notices given to the Commission under subsection 93 (2) to
        be available for public inspection;

   (b)  make provision in relation to the conduct of elections for the
        purposes of section 127 including, without limiting the generality of
        the foregoing, provision for a system of optional preferential voting
        to be used in such elections;

   (c)  make provision in relation to requests under subsection 195 (1) and
        the reconsideration of matters under subsection 195 (2);

   (d)  prescribe fees payable in respect of any matter under this Act; and

   (e)  provide penalities for breaches of the regulations not exceeding:

        (i)    in the case of a natural person-$1,000; or

        (ii)   in the case of a body corporate-$5,000.