Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(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:
(a) make provision for and in relation to schemes for the provision of assistance in the purchase of housing, and including, for such purposes, the purchase of land where the purchase of the land is for the purpose of the construction of housing on that land;
(b) make provision for and in relation to types of housing schemes and the class of persons eligible under such housing schemes;
(c) subject to section 35, make provision for and in relation to the sale at market value of dwellings by the Chief Executive Officer (Housing);
(d) make provision for and in relation to housing for certain classes of persons or their employees;
(e) make provision for and in relation to the letting of dwellings by the Chief Executive Officer (Housing) to certain classes of persons and their employees;
(ea) make provision in relation to acceptable behaviour agreements, including the matters that may be included in an acceptable behaviour agreement and the form and content of the notice requiring a tenant to enter into an acceptable behaviour agreement;
(f) make provision for and in relation to the Chief Executive Officer (Housing) acting as an agent for the Commonwealth or the Territory in the administration of a Commonwealth or Territory housing scheme;
(fa) make provision for and in relation to the requirements which a mortgagor referred to in section 29(2) must satisfy in order to be eligible for an exemption under section 29(3);
(g) make provision for and in relation to the terms and conditions upon which a rate of interest shall be payable on the balance of the purchase price for the time being outstanding under a contract of sale of, or a mortgage in respect of, a dwelling by a person purchasing, under a prescribed housing scheme referred to in section 22, the dwelling; and
(h) prescribe penalties, not exceeding a fine of $1,000 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months, for an offence against the Regulations.
(3) Regulations made in pursuance of subsection (2)(g) may be expressed to apply to a housing scheme administered, in pursuance of section 33F(2) of the former Act, by the former Commission as agent for the Territory and, for such purposes:
(a) the housing scheme shall be deemed to be a prescribed housing scheme referred to in section 22; and
(b) such regulations may be expressed to come into operation on a date before such regulations were made and shall, accordingly, be deemed to have come into operation on the date so specified.