Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

EXTRADITION ACT 1988 - SECT 55

                   The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters:

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

                     (b)  necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act;

and, in particular, may make regulations prescribing:

                     (c)  the practice and procedure in relation to the performance by magistrates of functions under this Act, including:

                              (i)  the remanding of persons either in custody or on bail;

                             (ii)  the summoning of witnesses;

                            (iii)  the production of documents;

                            (iv)  the taking of evidence on oath or affirmation;

                             (v)  the administering of oaths or affirmations;

                            (vi)  the payment of expenses of witnesses; and

                           (vii)  the protection and immunity of magistrates, of barristers and solicitors appearing before magistrates and of witnesses; and

                     (d)  prescribing penalties not exceeding a fine of $2,000 for offences against the regulations.