17 General provisions applicable to CPI adjustments
(1) This section applies in respect of a provision of this Act that provides for the adjustment of an amount by reference to the Consumer Price Index (a CPI adjustment provision).(2) If a CPI adjustment provision requires regard to be had to a Consumer Price Index number published before a due date in respect of rent or an instalment, regard may be had to the last Index number so published before a notice or invoice of the rent or instalment payable by the person liable to pay the rent or instalment is sent to the person concerned.(3) If the Australian Statistician publishes a Consumer Price Index number in respect of a particular quarter after the notice or invoice is sent:(a) except as provided by paragraph (b)—the publication of the later Index number is to be disregarded, or(b) if the Minister so directs—regard is to be had to the later and not to the earlier number.(4) If the Australian Statistician publishes a Consumer Price Index number in respect of a particular quarter in substitution for a Consumer Price Index number previously published in respect of that quarter:(a) except as provided by paragraph (b)—the publication of the later Index number is to be disregarded, or(b) if the Minister so directs—regard is to be had to the later and not to the earlier number.(5) If the reference base for the Consumer Price Index is changed, regard is to be had only to Index numbers published in terms of the new reference base or to Index numbers converted to the new reference base in accordance with an arithmetical conversion factor specified by the Australian Statistician.(6) An adjustment under a CPI adjustment provision is to be made to the nearest whole dollar.
(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act and, in particular, for or with respect to the following:(a) the functions of officers employed or acting in the administration or execution of this Act,(b) the circumstances in which fees, costs or deposits may be charged or required and the amount of any such fees, costs or deposits,(c) authorising the waiver or refund of the whole or any part of any fee, cost, deposit, interest or rent paid or payable under this Act,(d) determining the person to whom a refund of any fee, cost, deposit, interest or rent is payable,(e) prescribing the periods within which, and the manner in which, notices, objections and appeals may be made,(f) the keeping of records and books of account, the furnishing of returns and records and the inspection of, and the taking of extracts from, records or books,(g) the manner of, and the places and times for, the payment of rent, purchase money or other money,(h) the payment, by an incoming holder, of the value of any improvements on Crown land to the owner of those improvements,(i) the form and lodgment of, and manner of dealing with, applications, dealings, instruments or documents,(j) the execution of applications, dealings, instruments or documents,(k) the powers and functions of the Registrar-General in respect of applications, dealings, instruments or documents.(2) A regulation may create an offence punishable by a maximum penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units.
19 Savings and transitional provisions
Schedule 8 has effect.