Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The regulations may:
(a) provide that a relevant agreement or arrangement is a declared agreement or arrangement for the purposes of this Act; or
(b) provide that a relevant agreement or arrangement is a declared agreement or arrangement for the purposes of this Act but only in relation to a specified category of persons.
(2) Without limiting paragraph ( 1)(b), the regulations may provide that the relevant agreement or arrangement is a declared agreement or arrangement for the purposes of this Act only in relation to persons who undertake specified tasks or projects, or perform specified functions, under the agreement or arrangement.
(3) Before the Governor - General makes regulations for the purposes of subsection ( 1), the Minister, after consulting the Minister for Foreign Affairs, must be satisfied that it is appropriate to do so having regard to:
(a) whether this Act would apply to Australians in relation to activities engaged in under the relevant agreement or arrangement even if the regulations were not made; and
(b) the nature of the activities to be engaged in by Australians under the relevant agreement or arrangement; and
(c) the period during which those activities are to be engaged in; and
(d) the number of Australians likely to be engaging in those activities; and
(e) the circumstances in which Australians engaging in activities under the relevant agreement or arrangement are subject to, or immune from, the criminal laws in force in the foreign country concerned; and
(f) any other relevant matter.