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Provision Reference: s 44 (pt 3/41)
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must not be such as to amount to taxation.
 (3) A prescribed fee is payable to the Commonwealth.
 (4) The regulations may prescribe the circumstances in which the Registrar, on behalf of the Commonwealth, may wholly or partly waive a prescribed fee. The circumstances may relate to an individual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation or a class of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation.

628‑5  Lodgment of document without payment of fee
  If:
 (a) a fee is prescribed for the lodgment of a document; and
 (b) the document was submitted for lodgment without payment of the fee;
the document is not taken not to have been lodged merely because of non‑payment of the fee.

628‑10  Doing act without payment of fee
  If a fee is prescribed for a matter involving the doing of an act by the Registrar, the Registrar may refuse to do that act until the fee is paid.

628‑15  Effect of sections 628‑5 and 628‑10
  Sections 628‑5 and 628‑10 have effect despite anything in another Part of this Act.

628‑20  Debt due to the Commonwealth
  Each prescribed fee is a debt due to the Commonwealth.

628‑25  Payment of fee does not give right to inspect or search
  To avoid doubt, nothing in this Part, and nothing done under this Part:
 (a) imposes on the Registrar a duty to allow the inspection or search of a register or document, or to make available information; or
 (b) confers a right to inspect or search a register or document or to have information made available;
except so far as such a duty or right would, but for the effect of section 628‑10, exist under a provision of another Part of this Act or under some other law.

Part 15‑6—Regulations

Division 633—Regulations

633‑1  General regulation making power
 (1) The Governor‑General may make regulations prescribing matters:
 (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
 (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
 (2) Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may make provision prescribing penalties not exceeding 50 penalty units for contraventions of the regulations.

633‑5  Regulations concerning registered native title bodies corporate

Regulations concerning registered native title bodies corporate generally
 (1) Without limiting section 633‑1, the regulations may modify any of the provisions of this Act (other than subsections (8) and (9) of this section) as they relate to a registered native title body corporate.

Regulations concerning registered native title bodies corporate and special administrators
 (2) Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may modify the operation of:
 (a) Division 499; and
 (b) the provisions of the Corporations Act (as applied by section 499‑10);
in relation to the functions, duties and