Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00672:section:149:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00672
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 149 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 152254–154881

149  Regulations
 (1) The Governor‑General may make regulations prescribing matters:
 (a) required or permitted to be prescribed; and
 (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act; and
 (c) necessary or convenient for the conduct of any business relating to the Designs Office.
 (2) Without limiting subsection (1), that subsection includes the power to make regulations:
 (aa) making provision for and in relation to the following:
 (i) the requirements for filing a document under this Act or the regulations (including the requirement that the document must be in the form (if any) specified in a direction under section 144B);
 (ii) the consequences of a document not being in accordance with an approved form or not complying with the requirements referred to in subparagraph (i); and
 (ab) making provision for and in relation to the consequences of not complying with a direction under section 144C; and
 (a) requiring persons to give statutory declarations in relation to applications under the Act or regulations, or in relation to proceedings under the Act (other than court proceedings); and
 (b) making provision for and in relation to the making of a declaration, or the doing of an act, under this Act on behalf of a person who, because of infancy or physical or mental disability, is unable to make the declaration or do the act; and
 (c) providing for the refund, in the whole or part of a fee paid under the Act; and
 (d) providing for the waiver, in whole or part, of a fee that would otherwise be payable under the Act; and
 (e) making provision for and in relation to the amendment of an entry in the Register to correct a clerical error or an obvious mistake, or for any other purpose; and
 (f) empowering the Registrar to require a person to inform the Registrar, within the period prescribed by the regulations, whether or not the person wishes to be heard for the purposes of a provision of the Act; and
 (g) empowering the Registrar to require a person who wishes to be heard for the purposes of a provision of the Act to appear on a day, and at a place and time, specified by the Registrar; and
 (h) providing for the contents of design applications in which one or more designs are disclosed, including, but not limited to, requirements as to common ownership of the designs; and
 (i) empowering the Registrar to direct an applicant for registration of a design to do such things as are necessary to ensure that the application is in accordance with the requirements of the regulations for filing and:
 (i) providing for the lapsing of the application if