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REGULATORY POWERS (STANDARD PROVISIONS) ACT 2014 - SECT 3

Simplified outline

    The following is a simplified outline of this Act:

This Act creates a framework for each of the following:

  (a)   monitoring whether provisions of an Act or a legislative instrument have been, or are being, complied with;

  (b)   monitoring whether information given in compliance, or purported compliance, with a provision of an Act or a legislative instrument is correct;

  (ba)   monitoring other matters to which an Act or legislative instruments relates;

  (c)   gathering material that relates to the contravention of an offence provision or a civil penalty provision;

  (d)   the use of civil penalties to enforce provisions;

  (e)   the use of infringement notices where there is a reasonable belief that a provision has been contravened;

  (f)   the acceptance and enforcement of undertakings relating to compliance with provisions;

  (g)   the use of injunctions to enforce provisions.

A provision of an Act or a legislative instrument is not subject to monitoring, investigation or enforcement under this Act by force of this Act. This Act must be triggered by another Act.



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