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Housing Act 1955

Accounts and miscellaneous - Miscellaneous

40: Regulations

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

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The Governor-General can make regulations to help this Act work properly. You need to know that these regulations can cover things like the terms and conditions of agreements for selling State housing land. They can also cover things like fees for applications and how instruments are registered under section 18. The Governor-General can make regulations for other purposes, such as letting or leasing State housing land or buildings. You can find more information about publication requirements in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. Regulations made under this section are a type of secondary legislation, which you can learn more about by visiting the Legislation Act 2019. The Governor-General has the power to make regulations to give effect to the provisions of this Act. This means they can make rules to help the Act work as intended. You can find more information about the Act and its provisions by reading the legislation itself.

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Part 2Accounts and miscellaneous
Miscellaneous

40Regulations

  1. The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make all such regulations as in his opinion may be necessary or expedient for giving full effect to the provisions of this Act and for the due administration thereof.

  2. Without limiting the general power hereinbefore conferred, regulations may be made under this section for all or any of the following purposes:

  3. prescribing the terms and conditions of agreements for sale of State housing land, including conditions for the rescission of any such agreement:
    1. prescribing the conditions subject to which State housing land or buildings thereon may be let or leased:
      1. prescribing fees payable on applications for land or buildings under Part 1:
        1. prescribing or regulating the mode of registration of instruments under section 18:
          1. empowering the Crown to acquire or construct dwellings for the employees of any Pest Destruction Board constituted under the Agricultural Pest Destruction Act 1967; and prescribing the terms upon which the Crown may sell or lease the dwellings to Pest Destruction Boards, and the terms upon which the provisions of section 17 of the Public Works Amendment Act 1948 may be applied in respect of any such dwelling, and in what circumstances that dwelling may not become a fixture or pass with the land but remain the property of the owner thereof:
            1. generally for giving effect to the provisions of this Act.

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

              2. Repealed
              Compare
              • 1919 No 32 s 34
              Notes
              • Section 40(2)(e): amended, on , pursuant to section 126(1) of the Agricultural Pests Destruction Act 1967 (1967 No 147).
              • Section 40(2)(e): amended, on , pursuant to section 126(6) of the Agricultural Pests Destruction Act 1967 (1967 No 147).
              • Section 40(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
              • Section 40(3): repealed, on , by section 11 of the Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989 (1989 No 143).