Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(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) Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may make provision in relation to matters of a transitional nature (including the prescription of any saving or application provision) relating to:
(a) the amendments or repeals made by this Act; or
(b) the enactment of this Act.
(3) Regulations made for the purposes of Part 7 or Part 7A may make provision for or in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification (including any omission, addition or substitution), any matter contained in a written instrument or other document:
(a) as in force or existing at a particular time; or
(b) as in force or existing from time to time;
even if the written instrument or other document does not yet exist when the regulations are made.
(4) Subsection (3) has effect despite subsection 14(2) of the Legislation Act 2003 .
(5) If regulations made for the purposes of Part 7 or Part 7A make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating a matter contained in a written instrument or other document, the Director of Meteorology must ensure that:
(a) the text of the matter applied, adopted or incorporated is made publicly available on the Bureau's website, unless that text is set out in the regulations; and
(b) if the text of the matter is applied, adopted or incorporated as in force or existing from time to time--any subsequent amendments of that text are made publicly available on that website.