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409: Rules of court
or “Explains how judges can make special instructions for how things work in court”
You could also call this:

“Rules that explain how to follow and use the law”

The Governor-General can make regulations to help this Act work properly. These regulations are rules that explain how to use the Act.

The Governor-General can make regulations about different things. They can decide what forms you need to use for legal proceedings related to this Act. They can also set the fees you have to pay for these proceedings.

The regulations can also say how much money interpreters and witnesses should get for their time and travel. They can set the costs that people involved in legal proceedings have to pay.

The Governor-General can make regulations about other things too, if the Act says they’re needed.

These regulations are called secondary legislation. This means they have to follow special rules about how they’re published, which you can find in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 14 Miscellaneous provisions

410Regulations

  1. The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make all such regulations as may in his or her opinion 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 to make regulations conferred by this section, regulations may be made under this section—

  3. prescribing forms to be used in respect of any proceedings to which this Act applies:
    1. prescribing fees to be paid in respect of any proceedings to which this Act applies:
      1. prescribing the fees, travelling allowances, and expenses payable to interpreters and to persons giving evidence in proceedings to which this Act applies:
        1. prescribing the costs and charges payable by parties in proceedings to which this Act applies:
          1. providing for any other matters in respect of which regulations are contemplated under this Act.

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

            2. Repealed
            Compare
            • 1908 No 32 s 385
            Notes
            • Section 410(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
            • Section 410(3): repealed, on , by section 11 of the Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989 (1989 No 143).