General rules under this Part as to registration and fees
(1) The Governor may make regulations— (a) prescribing the manner and form of registering instruments under this Act or any other Act (except the Real Property Act 1900), and the requirements with which documents lodged or delivered for registration thereunder are to comply, (b) prescribing forms and contents of requisitions and certificates under Division 4, (c) regulating the practice of the Registrar-General under this Act or any other Act (except the Real Property Act 1900), (d) prescribing the fees to be taken for any matter to be done under this or any other Act (except the Real Property Act 1900), (d1) providing for the refund or waiver of any such fees, and (e) prescribing anything to be prescribed under this Act. (1A) (2) Prescribed in this Act in relation to any of the aforesaid matters means prescribed under the provisions of this section. (3) The fees prescribed in any such regulations shall be the fees payable for all matters therein mentioned, notwithstanding anything contained in any other Act or regulation (except the Real Property Act 1900 and the regulations made thereunder) prescribing the payment of fees, or limiting the amount thereof. (4) A regulation may create an offence punishable by a penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units. (5) Proceedings for an offence against a regulation shall be dealt with summarily before the Local Court. (6) A provision of a regulation may do one or more of the following— (a) authorise a matter or thing to, from time to time, be determined, applied or regulated by a specified person or body, (b) authorise the Registrar-General to exempt a person from complying with the provision in a particular case. (7) The regulations may include provision for or with respect to the increase on an annual or other basis in accordance with a formula prescribed by the regulations of fees prescribed by the regulations. (8) A fee can be prescribed by the regulations either as a specified amount or an amount calculated or determined in a specified manner.
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