Part 5Miscellaneous
157Regulations
The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:
- prescribing matters in respect of which fees are payable under this Act and the amounts of those fees:
- authorising the Commission in its discretion, or on any grounds that may be prescribed, to refund, in whole or in part, any prescribed fee that has been paid under this Act:
- prescribing forms for the purposes of this Act:
- prescribing the form in which a civil infringement notice must be served under section 156D:
- prescribing the amount of the pecuniary penalty that must be specified in a civil infringement notice under section 156D(2)(b) (which may not exceed $2,000):
- prescribing the time within and the manner in which a written objection to a civil infringement notice must be made under section 156E and the information to be included in that written objection:
- prescribing any other information that a notice published by the Commission under section 156K may contain:
- prescribing the procedures or minimum standards to be followed by a consumer complaints adjudicator in dealing with complaints under a consumer complaints system:
- specifying the time frames within which the procedures or minimum standards prescribed under paragraph (ce) must be followed:
- prescribing requirements and other matters concerning the operation and administration of a consumer complaints system:
- setting out minimum requirements for emergency call services and specifying which persons are subject to those requirements:
- prescribing matters for the purposes of the copper withdrawal code:
- providing for any other matters contemplated by this Act, necessary for its administration, or necessary for giving it full effect.
Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).
Notes
- Section 157(1)(ca): inserted, on , by section 55 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).
- Section 157(1)(cb): inserted, on , by section 55 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).
- Section 157(1)(cc): inserted, on , by section 55 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).
- Section 157(1)(cd): inserted, on , by section 55 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).
- Section 157(1)(ce): inserted, on , by section 55 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).
- Section 157(1)(cf): inserted, on , by section 55 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).
- Section 157(1)(cg): inserted, on , by section 55 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).
- Section 157(1)(ch): inserted, on , by section 55 of the Telecommunications Amendment Act (No 2) 2006 (2006 No 83).
- Section 157(1)(ci): inserted, on , by section 11 of the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 48).
- Section 157(2): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).


