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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Miscellaneous, transitional, and savings provisions - Miscellaneous provisions

147: Regulations

You could also call this:

"Rules made by the Governor-General to help the Sentencing Act 2002 work properly"

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The Governor-General can make regulations for the Sentencing Act 2002. You might wonder what these regulations are for. They can be about things like creating forms, recording changes to vehicle registration, and deciding fines for breaking rules.

The Governor-General can also make regulations about the amount of money people have to pay as a levy under section 105B. Regulations can be made for other matters that are necessary for the Act to work properly.

You can find out more about what regulations are and how they are published by looking at Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Miscellaneous, transitional, and savings provisions: Miscellaneous provisions

147Regulations

  1. The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

  2. prescribing forms for the purposes of this Act:
    1. prescribing the procedure for recording changes to registration details of a motor vehicle when an order for confiscation of a vehicle is made:
      1. prescribing offences in respect of the contravention of, or non-compliance with, any regulations made under this Act and the amounts of fines that may be imposed in respect of those offences, which fines must not exceed $500:
        1. prescribing the amount of the levy payable under section 105B:
          1. generally providing for any other matters that are contemplated by, or necessary for giving full effect to, this Act, and for its due administration.

            1. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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            Notes
            • Section 147(1)(ca): inserted, on , by section 9 of the Sentencing (Offender Levy) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 42).
            • Section 147(2): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).