Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts The Governor may make
any regulations necessary or convenient for carrying this Act into effect and
in particular may make regulations for all or any of the following
purposes —
(a) the
issue of licences and the fees to be paid for licences; and
(b) the
transfer and surrendering of licences; and
(c) the
form, manner and place of registration of licences, renewals, cancellations
and other matters requiring registration under this Act, where not specially
provided for in this Act; and
(d)
prescribing the charges that a debt collector is entitled to charge, recover
or receive from any debtor of a creditor for or in connection with the
collection of a debt from the debtor on behalf of the creditor where the debt
is paid by instalments and prescribing that the maximum amount thereof shall
not exceed 2½% of the amount of the debt and providing for a minimum
charge; and
(e)
providing that any auditor or authorised person auditing or examining any
documents, books, accounts, or records of a licensee shall be subject to an
obligation not to divulge, otherwise than prescribed, any matter of which he
shall be informed in the course of any such audit or inspection; and
(f)
exempting any person, body or authority from the application of this Act in
accordance with section 4(h) and exempting wholly or to the extent
prescribed any other person, body or authority or class of persons, bodies or
authorities from the operation of this Act and specifying what provisions, if
any, of this Act and the regulations are, with such modifications as are
necessary or seem desirable and are specified in the regulations, to apply to
the person, body or authority or any class thereof so exempted; and
(g)
regulating and prohibiting the method and manner in which a debt collector may
make known the place where, and the fact that he is a debt collector; and
(h)
imposing penalties not exceeding $200 for breach of any regulation; and
(i)
prescribing all matters and things required or permitted
by this Act to be prescribed.
[Section 26 amended by No. 113 of 1965
s. 8.]
