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Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017

Subordinate instruments and miscellaneous provisions - Guidelines, standards, rules, and regulations

118: Regulations

You could also call this:

"Rules made by the Governor-General to help the Substance Addiction Act work"

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The Governor-General can make rules for the Substance Addiction Act. You need to follow these rules when you are dealing with things like forms, records, and notices. The Governor-General can also say what substances are covered by this Act and make rules for other things that are needed to make the Act work.

The rules can apply to everyone or just to some people, like those in a particular treatment centre. The Governor-General can make rules for a specific group of patients or a specific place.

The rules made under this section are called secondary legislation, which means they are a type of law (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for more information about how these laws are published).

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Part 3Subordinate instruments and miscellaneous provisions
Guidelines, standards, rules, and regulations

118Regulations

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

  2. prescribing forms, registers, records, particulars, and notices for the purposes of this Act and the method of keeping such registers and records:
    1. declaring any substance to be a substance for the purposes of this Act:
      1. providing for any other matters contemplated by this Act, necessary for its administration, or necessary for giving it full effect.

        1. Any regulations made under this section may apply generally, or may apply in respect of any particular treatment centre or other place or any particular class of patient.

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

        Notes
        • Section 118(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).