(1) The Governor may
make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by
this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for
achieving the objects and giving effect to the purposes of this Act.
(2) Without limiting
subsection (1) and subject to section 16, regulations may be made prescribing
—
(a) fees
for lodging access applications; and
(b)
charges for dealing with access applications or rates to be used in
calculating such charges.
(3) In the making of
regulations under subsection (2) (as read with section 45 of the
Interpretation Act 1984 ) regard has to be had to the need to ensure that fees
and charges are reasonable and as low as is practicable, and special regard
has to be had to —
(a) the
need to ensure that financially disadvantaged persons are not precluded from
exercising their rights under this Act merely because of financial hardship;
and
(b) the
particular relationship between a person and documents containing personal
information about that person.
(4) Without limiting
subsection (1), regulations may be made —
(a) as
to the way in which access applications and applications for amendment
relating to electronically stored information may be dealt with and as to the
way in which access to such information may be provided and the way in which
such information may be amended;
(b) as
to the nomination of persons for the purposes of section 28 and as to the
qualifications of such persons for nomination.