Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Governor - General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters that by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or to be provided for by regulation, or that are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to this Act, and, in particular:
(a) for enabling a specified officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth to delegate his powers and functions under regulations made for the purposes of Part II; and
(b) for prescribing penalties not exceeding a fine of 1 penalty unit for offences against the regulations.
(2) The power to make regulations conferred by this Act shall not be taken, by implication, not to include the power to make provision for or in relation to a matter by reason only of the fact that:
(a) provision is made by this Act in relation to that matter or another matter; or
(b) power is expressly conferred by this Act to make provision by regulation for or in relation to another matter.
(3) The power to make regulations conferred by this Act may be exercised:
(a) in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to specified exceptions, or in relation to any specified cases or classes of case; and
(b) so as to make, as respects the cases in relation to which it is exercised, the same provision for all those cases or a different provision for different cases or classes of case.
(4) The power conferred by this Act to make modifications by regulation includes the power to omit any matter or add any new matter.
(5) The limitation imposed by subsection (1) on the penalties that may be prescribed by regulation does not prevent the regulations from requiring a person to make a statutory declaration.