New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CROWN LANDS ACT 1989 - SECT 184

184 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act and, in particular, for or with respect to the following:

(a) the functions of officers employed or acting in the administration or execution of this Act,

(b) the procedure to be followed in or in connection with an inquiry held or to be held under this Act,

(c) the circumstances in which fees, costs or deposits may be charged or required and the amount of any such fees, costs or deposits,

(d) authorising the waiver or refund of the whole or any part of any fees, costs, deposits, interest or rent paid or payable under this Act,

(e) determining the person to whom a refund of any fee, cost, deposit, interest or rent is payable,

(f) prescribing the periods within which, and the manner in which, notices may be given and objections and appeals may be made,

(g) the keeping of records and books of account, the furnishing of returns and records and the inspection of, and the taking of extracts from, records or books,

(h) the making of searches in connection with holdings, the issue of certificates relating to holdings and the effect of those certificates,

(i) proceedings before local land boards, sittings of local land boards and the members and Chairpersons of local land boards,

(j) the establishment of land offices and their functions and hours of business,

(k) the alteration, abolition, establishment and definition of land districts,

(l) applications for land and procedures in respect of conflicting applications,

(m) the manner of, and the places and time for, the payment of rent, purchase money or other money,

(n) the payment, by an incoming holder, of the value of any improvements on Crown land to the owner of those improvements,

(o) the form and lodgment of, and manner of dealing with, applications, dealings, instruments or documents relating to land,

(p) the execution of applications, dealings, instruments or documents relating to land,

(q) the powers and functions of the Registrar-General in respect of applications, dealings, instruments or documents relating to land.

(2) A regulation may create an offence punishable by a maximum penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units.