NORFOLK ISLAND ACT 1979 No. 25, 1979 - SECT 67 Regulations

NORFOLK ISLAND ACT 1979 No. 25, 1979 - SECT 67

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 sub-section 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 sub-section (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 sub-section.