New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FUNERAL FUNDS ACT 1979 - SECT 92

92 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.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Governor may make regulations for or with respect to:

(a) the issue of certificates of registration,

(b) the fees to be taken in the office of the Director-General for any matter or thing to be done in that office,

(c) the control of advertisements relating to contributory or pre-paid funeral benefit business, and

(d) the accounts and registers to be kept by pre-paid funeral funds, the audit of those accounts and the returns to be furnished by pre-paid funeral funds, and

(e) the transfer of contributions made by a contributor from one funeral contribution fund to another such fund, and

(f) the transfer of trust funds from one pre-paid funeral fund to another such fund, and

(g) the transfer of a contract from one funeral director to another funeral director, and

(h) the requirements for actuarial investigations of pre-paid funeral funds, and

(i) the information that must be provided to a consumer before a pre-paid contract is entered into, and

(j) without limiting paragraph (i), information that must be provided to a consumer about the funeral services that will be provided under a pre-paid contract, including information about the funeral services that are not covered by the contract, and

(k) the information that must be provided with a pre-paid contract, including information relating to cancellation of the contract under section 49.

(3) A regulation may impose a penalty not exceeding 2 penalty units for any contravention thereof.

(4) A provision of a regulation may:

(a) apply generally or be limited in its application by reference to specified exceptions or factors,

(b) apply differently according to different factors of a specified kind, or

(c) authorise any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied or regulated by any specified person or body,

or may do any combination of those things.