Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

BAIL ACT - SECT 53

(1) The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Regulations may make provision for or in relation to:

(a) facilities to be provided to enable the making of communications referred to in section 16(2)(b);

(b) the procedures to be followed where an application is made, under section 33(4), to a magistrate or justice, by telephone, telex, radio or similar facility;

(c) the release of accused persons from prison or any other place of custody consequent upon the grant of bail or upon the requirement for bail being dispensed with;

(d) warrants and summonses issued under this Act;

(e) the fees to be demanded and taken in relation to any matter connected with this Act; and

(f) the forms to be used for the purposes of this Act.

(3) The Regulations may provide, in respect of an offence against the Regulations, for the imposition of a fine not exceeding $500.