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MAGISTRATES COURT (CRIMINAL AND GENERAL DIVISION) ACT 2019 (NO. 43 OF 2019) - SECT 163

Regulations
(1)  The Governor may make regulations for the purposes of this Act.
(2)  Without limiting the generality of subsection (1) , regulations made under this section may –
(a) provide for fees, costs and charges payable under this Act, or any other Act, in respect of any matter or proceeding for which the Court has jurisdiction; and
(b) provide for the payment to witnesses of expenses and compensation; and
(c) provide for the advances, whether periodical or otherwise, that may be made to those witnesses on account of those expenses; and
(d) provide for the waiver, remission, reduction or refund of, or exemption from, any fees, costs and charges payable under this Act.
(3)  The regulations may be made so as to apply differently according to matters, limitations or restrictions, whether as to time, circumstance or otherwise, specified in the regulations.
(4)  The regulations may –
(a) provide that a contravention of any of the regulations is an offence; and
(b) in respect of such an offence, provide for the imposition of a fine not exceeding 50 penalty units and, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding 10 penalty units for each day during which the offence continues.
(5)  The regulations may authorise any matter to be from time to time determined, approved, applied or regulated by the Chief Magistrate, a magistrate, the Administrator, a district registrar, the Secretary of the Department or another person specified in the regulations.
(6)  The regulations may –
(a) provide for savings or transitional matters necessary or expedient for bringing this Act into operation; and
(b) provide for any of those savings or transitional matters to take effect on the day on which this Act commences or on a later day specified in the regulations, whether the day so specified is before, on or after the day on which the regulations are made.



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