(1) The Governor - General may make regulations making provision (including provision by way of modifications of an Act) in relation to:
(a) any matter arising from, connected with or consequential upon the establishment of the Territory as a body politic under the Crown; or
(b) any matter arising from, connected with or consequential upon the conversion of a law into an enactment.
(2) The power to make regulations extends to regulations expressed to take effect on and from a date earlier than the date of the making of the regulations, not being a date earlier than Self - Government Day.
(3) Regulations relating to a matter specified in paragraph (1)(a) shall not be made after 31 December 1989.
(4) Regulations relating to a matter specified in paragraph (1)(b) shall not be made after the law becomes an enactment.
(5) In this section:
"law" includes:
(a) a part of a law; or
(b) an Ordinance or a part of an Ordinance.