New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TRAVEL AGENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 57

57 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 regulations may:

(a) prescribe a scheme for compensating persons who suffer a pecuniary loss by reason of an act or omission by a person who carries on, or carried on, business as a travel agent,

(b) prescribe the scheme by reference to a schedule comprising a copy of the trust deed by which the scheme is established, and

(c) from time to time amend that schedule to incorporate amendments of the trust deed of which the Director-General is notified by the compensation scheme trustees, and

(d) make provision for or with respect to appeals against the administrators of any scheme prescribed under this subsection and with respect to the functions of the Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal established by the Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal Act 2001 in determining any such appeal.

(3) The regulations may prescribe matters that may be taken into account for the purposes of section 20 (1) (e).

(4) The regulations may provide that the fee referred to in section 8 (3), 17 (1) or 17 (8) is to be:

(a) a specified amount, or

(b) an amount calculated in a specified manner.

(5) A regulation may impose a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units for a breach of the regulation.

(6) 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 a specified person or body,

or may do any combination of those things.