(1) The Governor - General may make regulations prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) The Governor - General may not make regulations prescribing a State or Territory for the purposes of section 15A, 15B or 15C (in this subsection called the relevant section ) unless the Governor - General is satisfied that any conduct that, immediately before the making of the regulations, is an offence against the relevant section is also an offence against a law of that State or Territory.
(3) For the purposes of the Legislation Act 2003 , the Minister administering the Australian Federal Police Act 1979 is the rule - maker for regulations made for the purposes of this Act.
(4) Subsection ( 3) applies despite subsection 6(1) of the Legislation Act 2003 .