New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WESTERN LANDS ACT 1901 - SECT 36

36 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 the following:

(a) the functions of officers employed or acting in the administration or execution of this Act,

(b) the procedure to be followed in or in connection with an inquiry held or to be held under this Act,

(c) the circumstances in which fees, costs or deposits may be charged or required and the amount of any such fees, costs or deposits,

(d) authorising the waiver or refund of the whole or any part of any fee, cost, deposit, interest or rent paid or payable under this Act,

(e) determining the person to whom a refund of any fee, cost, deposit, interest or rent is payable,

(f) prescribing the periods within which, and the manner in which, notices may be given and objections and appeals may be made,

(g) the keeping of records and books of account, the furnishing of returns and records and the inspection of, and the taking of extracts from, records or books,

(h) the making of searches in connection with holdings, the issue of certificates relating to holdings and the effect of those certificates,

(i) proceedings before local land boards, sittings of local land boards and the members and Chairpersons of local land boards,

(j) the establishment, definition, alteration, modification and cancellation of administrative districts,

(k) applications for land and procedures in respect of conflicting applications,

(l) the manner of, and the places and times for, the payment of rent, purchase money or other money,

(m) the payment, by an incoming holder, of the value of any improvements on Crown land to the owner of those improvements,

(n) the form and lodgment of, and manner of dealing with, applications, dealings, instruments or documents relating to land,

(o) the execution of applications, dealings, instruments or documents relating to land,

(p) the powers and functions of the Registrar-General in respect of applications, dealings, instruments or documents relating to land.

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

(3) The regulations may confer or impose on the Commissioner, with any necessary modifications, any power, authority, duty or function relating to the health of the public that is, or but for being modified would be, the same as a power, authority, duty or function conferred or imposed on a council by or under the Local Government Act 1993 in relation to the health of the public in its area.