Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—
(a) requirements for remote execution procedures and witnessing by audio visual link, including, but not limited to different requirements for—
(i) different documents or classes of document; or
(ii) different witnesses or classes of witness; or
(iii) different testators or classes of testator; or
(iv) different forms or processes for the use of electronic signatures or the use or form of documents in electronic formats;
(b) forms;
(c) fees;
(d) persons or classes of person to be special witnesses;
(e) prescribing penalties not exceeding 20 penalty units for a contravention of the regulations;
(f) any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.
(2) The regulations may—
(a) be of general or limited application;
(b) differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance;
(c) leave any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied, dispensed with or regulated by a specified person;
(d) provide in a specified case or class of cases for the exemption of persons or things or a class of persons or things from any of the provisions of the regulations whether—
(i) unconditionally or on specified conditions; and
(ii) either wholly or to the extent specified in the regulations.
Part 6—Transitional and consequential provisions