387Regulations

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

2. providing that proceedings with specified features, or in relation to particular offences, or particular categories or classes of offence, are Crown prosecutions for the purposes of subpart 2 of Part 5:
3. prescribing, for the purpose of section 187(1), the time or stage in a proceeding at which the Solicitor-General must assume responsibility for a Crown prosecution, and regulations under this paragraph may prescribe different times or stages for the assumption of that responsibility in different classes of proceeding:
4. prescribing periods for the purposes of sections 190, 191, and 192:
5. prescribing, for the purposes of sections 73 and 74, different or alternative places of trial from those specified in sections 73(4) and 74(4):
6. prescribing the court fees to be paid in respect of any proceedings or any processes to which this Act applies:
7. prescribing the fees, travelling allowances, and expenses payable to interpreters and to persons giving evidence in proceedings to which this Act applies:
8. prescribing the solicitors' fees payable by parties in proceedings to which this Act applies:
9. providing for information about proceedings under this Act to be transferred between courts, where that information is relevant to proceedings under the Care of Children Act 2004, the Family Violence Act 2018, the Harassment Act 1997, or the Victims' Orders Against Violent Offenders Act 2014, including (without limitation) provision for such information to be transferred between—
   1. different courts; or
   2. different divisions of the same court; or
   3. courts exercising civil jurisdiction and courts exercising criminal jurisdiction; or
   4. courts exercising original jurisdiction and courts exercising appellate jurisdiction:
10. amending Schedule 1 by adding offences to, or removing offences from, that schedule:
11. prescribing transitional arrangements for the trial and sentencing of persons charged with offences that are added to or removed from Schedule 1:
12. prescribing offences for the purposes of section 356(1):
13. providing for any other matters contemplated by this Act, necessary for its administration, or necessary for giving it full effect.

14. Regulations made under subsection (1)(e) or (f) may—

15. prescribe different fees in respect of different classes of prosecutor or defendant or categories of offence, or on any other differential basis:
16. prescribe different fees in respect of a matter depending on whether electronic or other means are used in a particular circumstance.

17. Repealed

18. Repealed

19. Regulations made under subsection (1)(k) must not be made without the concurrence of the Chief Justice and the Chief District Court Judge.

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

21. Regulations under subsection (1)(i) or (j) must be confirmed by an Act (see subpart 3 of Part 5 of the Legislation Act 2019).