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BUSINESS NAMES ACT 1962 - SECT 32

32 .         Regulations

        (1)         The Governor may make regulations not inconsistent with this Act prescribing all matters that are required or permitted to be prescribed or that are necessary or convenient to be prescribed to carry this Act into effect or to give effect to any power, function, duty or authority under this Act and, without limiting the generality of the power conferred by this section, the regulations may prescribe —

            (a)         the fees to be paid to the Commissioner under this Act; and

            (b)         the conditions under and subject to which fees may be waived by the Commissioner or the Minister; and

            (c)         the imposition of additional fees on the late lodgment of documents; and

            (ca)         the manner in which applications for the Minister’s consent to the registration of business names which may not be registered without his consent may be made and granted, and the fees to be paid to the Commissioner on the making of any such application and on the Minister’s giving his consent to the registration of any such name; and

            (d)         the forms to be used under this Act; the method of verifying any information required in those forms; and the completion or preparation of those forms, as the case requires, in accordance with the directions contained therein; and

            (e)         the duties of the Commissioner for the purposes of this Act; and

            (f)         generally the conduct and regulation of registration under this Act.

        (2)         The regulations may prescribe penalties not exceeding $40 for any breach thereof.

        [Section 32 amended by No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 40 of 1976 s. 11 and 12; No. 48 of 1983 s. 3.]



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