Anti-Personnel Mines Prohibition Act 1998

26 Regulations

• (1) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

  • (a) providing for any matter that is necessary or desirable for the purpose of implementing the Convention:

  • (b) prescribing offences in respect of the contravention of or non-compliance with any provision of any regulations made under this section, and prescribing fines, not exceeding $5,000, that may, on summary conviction, be imposed in respect of any such offence:

  • (c) providing for such other matters as are contemplated by or necessary for giving full effect to this Act and for its due administration.

  (2) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council,—

  • (a) amend the Schedule by making such amendments to the text of the Convention set out in that schedule as are required to bring that text up to date:

  • (b) revoke the Schedule, and substitute a new schedule setting out in an up-to-date form the text of the Convention.

  (3) Any order made under subsection (2) is a regulation for the purposes of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 and the Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989.

  Compare: 1996 No 37 s 29