New South Wales Consolidated Acts

IRRIGATION AREAS (REDUCTION OF RENTS) ACT 1974 - SECT 14

14 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:

(a) prescribing a class or description of persons for the purposes of paragraph (d) of the definition of "pensioner" in section 3 (1), and

(b) prescribing a percentage for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of "prescribed percentage" in section 5 (1).

(2) Regulations may be made so as to apply differently according to such factors as may be specified in the regulations.

(3) Where the prescribed percentage (within the meaning of section 5 or 6) applicable to a year is varied by or by operation of a regulation, the regulation shall not have any force in so far as it would, but for this subsection, take effect later than six months after the commencement of that year.

(4) Where, after an application for the reduction of the rent payable for the whole or a part of a year in respect of a lease has been disposed of under this Act, the prescribed percentage (within the meaning of section 5 or 6) applicable to the year is varied by or by operation of a regulation, the regulation shall, in relation only to the rent that is the subject of the application, be deemed not to have any force.