Status of Children Act 1996 No 76
Current version for 1 March 2011 to date (accessed 19 May 2013 at 19:18)
Part 4Section 36

36   Regulations

(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.
(2)  Without affecting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may make provision with respect to any of the following matters:
(a)  the carrying out of parentage testing procedures under parentage testing orders,
(b)  the preparation of reports in relation to the information obtained as the result of the carrying out of such procedures.
(3)  A regulation may create an offence punishable by a penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units.
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