Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Consequential, Transitional and Other Measures Act 2006 (125 of 2006)

Schedule 3   Transitional provisions

Part 4   Administrative matters, compliance and enforcement

Division 3   Other administrative matters

116   Regulations

(1) The Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters:

(a) required or permitted by this Schedule to be prescribed; or

(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Schedule.

(2) In particular, regulations may be made prescribing matters of a transitional nature (including prescribing any saving or application provisions) relating to:

(a) the amendments or repeals made by this Act; or

(b) the enactment of this Act or the new Act; or

(c) the application of provisions of this Schedule or of the new Act (including modifying the application of those provisions) to transitional corporations; or

(d) the application of other laws of the Commonwealth (including modifying the application of those laws) to transitional corporations.

(3) Regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (2)(c) or (d) must not:

(a) increase, or have the effect of increasing, the maximum penalty for any offence; or

(b) widen, or have the effect of widening, the scope of any offence.