HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COMPLAINTS ACT 2004 - SECT 87
HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COMPLAINTS ACT 2004 - SECT 87
(1) The Governor may
make regulations as contemplated by this Act, or as necessary or expedient for
the purposes of this Act.
(a)
provide for the form and service of documents under this Act; and
(b)
prescribe a fee (which may be a differential fee) payable by
registered service providers in connection with the payment of a fee under a
registration Act, and provide for the collection of the fee by a
registration authority and payment to a prescribed authority of the amount so
collected in accordance with a scheme specified by the regulations or
determined by the Minister; and
(c)
prescribe a scheme under which a registration authority will, in a particular
financial year, pay to the Minister an amount, determined under the scheme,
towards costs associated with the administration of this Act; and
(d)
refer to or incorporate, wholly or partially and with or without modification,
a code, standard or other document prepared or published by a prescribed body,
either as in force at the time the regulations are made or as in force from
time to time; and
(e) be
of general or limited application; and
(f) make
different provision according to the persons, things or circumstances to which
they are expressed to apply; and
(g)
provide that a specified provision of this Act does not apply, or applies with
prescribed variations, in any circumstance or situation (or circumstance or
situation of a prescribed class) specified by the regulations, subject to any
condition to which the regulations are expressed to be subject; and
(h)
provide that any matter or thing is to be determined, dispensed with,
regulated or prohibited according to the discretion of the Minister, the
Commissioner or another prescribed authority; and
(i)
impose penalties, not exceeding $5 000, for a
contravention of, or failure to comply with, a regulation.
(3) If a registration
authority is liable to pay an amount under a scheme prescribed under
subsection (2)(c) with respect to a particular financial year, then the
service providers registered by the relevant registration authority will not
be liable for any fee prescribed under subsection (2)(b) that is payable
with respect to the same financial year.
(4) Nothing in
subsection (2) or (3) limits or affects any other power or authority to
set or collect any other fee under any other Act.