New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DORMANT FUNDS ACT 1942 - SECT 19

19 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations not inconsistent with this Act prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) the regulations may:

(a) prescribe a scale of fees in respect of proceedings in relation to dormant funds before the Commissioner or the Charity Referees; and such scale may vary according to the amount or value of the dormant fund, the nature of the proceedings or according to any other circumstances which the Governor may consider relevant,

(b) provide for the payment of travelling and sustenance expenses of the Charity Referees,

(c) provide for the payment to the person referred to in subsection (3) of section 5, of a fee for each meeting of the Charity Referees at which the person is present,

(d) prescribe the practice and procedure for proceedings held by the Commissioner and by the Charity Referees.