Queensland Numbered Acts

COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACT 2020 - SECT 9

9 Regulation-making power for particular matters relating to documents

(1) This section applies if an Act or a common law rule requires or permits any of the following (each a
"relevant matter" )—

(a) the signing of a document by a person;

(b) the witnessing of signatures;

(c) the certification of matters by signatories, witnesses or other persons involved in the making of a document;

(d) the verification of the identity of individuals;

(e) the attestation of a document;

(f) the production of a document by a person;

(g) the making of a document in a particular form or way;

(h) the following of particular processes for making a document;

(i) the making or signing of a document or certification of a matter by a particular person or class of persons;

(j) the inclusion of particular content in a document;

(k) the recording of information;

(l) the filing, lodgement, giving or service of a notice or other document;

(m) the sighting of a document by a person for a particular purpose;

(n) the publication or display of a notice or advertisement for a particular purpose;

(o) the retention of documents or information.

(2) The Act is taken to include a power to make a regulation as provided in this section.

(3) A regulation under the Act may make provision about a relevant matter required or permitted under the Act , or required or permitted under a common law rule, by—

(a) prescribing modified requirements or arrangements; or

(b) suspending requirements or arrangements.

(4) A regulation under the Act may make provision about a matter incidental to a relevant matter mentioned in subsection (3) .

(5) In this section—

"document" does not include a statutory instrument.