Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 - SECT 215

General

  (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.

Prescribed fees

  (2)   Without limiting subsection   (1):

  (a)   the regulations may make provision:

  (i)   prescribing fees to be paid for inspecting the Register of Native Title Claims, the Register of Indigenous Land Use Agreements or the National Native Title Register; and

  (ii)   for or in relation to the waiver or refund, in whole or in part, of such fees; and

  (aa)   the regulations may make provision:

  (i)   prescribing fees to be paid to obtain access to, or information from, records or information kept by the Native Title Registrar as mentioned in section   41B or   98A; and

  (ii)   for or in relation to the waiver or refund, in whole or part, of such fees; and

  (b)   the regulations may make provision:

  (i)   prescribing fees to be paid in relation to applications to the Native Title Registrar; and

  (ia)   the waiver, in whole or in part, of those fees; and

  (ii)   for or in relation to the refund, in whole or in part, of fees so paid where proceedings on the applications terminate in a manner favourable to the applicants; and

  (c)   regulations prescribing fees may:

  (i)   prescribe fees in relation to a particular class or classes of applications only; and

  (ii)   prescribe different fees in relation to different classes of applications.

Registers

  (3)   Without limiting subsection   (1), the regulations may make provision, not inconsistent with this Act, relating to the way in which:

  (a)   the Register of Native Title Claims; or

  (b)   the Register of Indigenous Land Use Agreements; or

  (c)   the National Native Title Register;

is to be established and kept, or relating to any other matter concerning such a register.

Transitional or saving provisions

  (4)   Without limiting subsection   (1), the regulations may make such transitional or saving provisions as are necessary or convenient as a result of the recognition of representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander bodies being withdrawn under section   203AH.