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ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS PLANNING AUTHORITY ACT 1972 - SECT 51

51 .         Regulations

        (1)         The Governor may make regulations not inconsistent with this Act prescribing all matters that by this Act are required or permitted for carrying out or giving effect to the objects of this Act, and any such regulation may confer upon a specified person or body a discretionary authority.

        (2)         Without limiting the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1), the Governor may make regulations for or with respect to —

            (a)         the control of the receipt and payment of money, classification of accounts, authorisation of expenditure, and all matters pertaining to the management of the accounts;

            (b)         the management and the use of reserved lands;

            (c)         entry upon reserved lands by specified persons or classes of persons for specified purposes, and the conditions under which those persons may enter or remain thereon, and providing for the revocation of such authority in any case;

            (d)         provision of appropriate means of consultation with representative persons of Aboriginal descent;

            (e)         prescribing fees payable for the purposes of this Act.

        (3)         Regulations may create offences and provide, in respect of an offence so created, for the imposition of a penalty of —

            (a)         for a first offence, $1 000 and imprisonment for 9 months;

            (b)         for a second or subsequent offence, $5 000 and imprisonment for 12 months.

        [Section 51 amended by No. 78 of 1995 s. 147; No. 50 of 2003 s. 34(4).]



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