Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00800:section:504:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00800
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 504 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 1324376–1327103

of oaths or affirmations and the payment of expenses of witnesses;
 (g) requiring assurances of support to be given, in such circumstances as are prescribed or as the Minister thinks fit, in relation to persons seeking to enter, or remain in, Australia and providing for the enforcement of assurances of support and the imposition on persons who give assurances of support of liabilities in respect of the maintenance of, and other expenditure in connexion with, the persons in respect of whom the assurances of support are given;
 (i) enabling a person who is alleged to have contravened section 137 to pay to the Commonwealth, as an alternative to prosecution, a prescribed penalty, not exceeding 10 penalty units;
 (j) enabling a person who is alleged to have contravened section 229 or 230 to pay to the Commonwealth, as an alternative to prosecution, a prescribed penalty, not exceeding:
 (i) in the case of a natural person—30 penalty units; and
 (ii) in the case of a body corporate—100 penalty units; and
 (jaa) enabling a person who is alleged to have committed an offence against subsection 245N(2) to pay to the Commonwealth, as an alternative to prosecution, a prescribed penalty, not exceeding 10 penalty units; and
 (ja) enabling a person who is alleged to have committed an offence against subsection 280(1) to pay to the Commonwealth, as an alternative to prosecution, a penalty of 12 penalty units; and
 (k) prescribing penalties, of imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units, in respect of offences against the regulations; and
 (l) making provision for matters that, under the Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000, are required or permitted to be prescribed in regulations made under this Act.
 (2) Section 14 of the Legislation Act 2003 does not prevent, and has not prevented, regulations whose operation depends on a country or other matter being specified or certified by the Minister in an instrument in writing made under the regulations after the commencement of the regulations.
 (2A) The regulations that may be made under paragraph (1)(e) include, but are not limited to, regulations specifying circumstances in which a document is to be taken to have been given in a specified way.
 (3) The regulations that may be made under paragraph (1)(e) include, but are not limited to, regulations providing that a document given to, or served on, a person in a specified way shall be taken for all purposes of this Act and the regulations to have been received by the person at a specified or ascertainable time.
 (3A) The Evidence Act 1995 does not affect the operation of regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (1)(e).
 (4) Regulations