New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORATES AND ELECTIONS ACT 1912 - SECT 176

176 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) The Governor may, in such regulations, provide for any proceeding, matter, or thing for which express provision has not been herein made in order to give due effect to the intent and meaning of the provisions of this Act.

(3) Where any alteration of a form in the Schedules is found necessary, or where it is found that the time allowed to do any act is clearly insufficient, and an alteration or extension of such time and any alteration of dates consequent thereon is shown to be necessary, the Governor may, by regulation or notification in the Gazette, declare that such alteration shall be made, and thereupon the same shall be made and take effect accordingly.

(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.

(5) A provision of a regulation may (without limiting any power conferred by this section or the Interpretation Act 1987 ) adopt a form approved under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 of the Commonwealth for the purposes of a provision of that Act as the prescribed form for the purposes of a corresponding provision of this Act.

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