EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Criminology Research Act 1971 - Criminology Research Regulations (Amendment)
1990 No.85
Section 51 of the Criminology Research Act 1971 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The Minute recommends amendments to sub-regulation 4(2) of, and the Schedule to, the Criminology Research Regulations.
Section 4 of the Act provides that “the appropriate Minister” in relation to a State or the Northern Territory means such Minister of the Crown of that State, or such Minister of the Northern Territory, as is prescribed.
Section 35 of the Act provides that “the appropriate Minister” of a State and of the Northern Territory is to have the function of nominating a person who is to represent a State or the Northern Territory, as the case may be, on the Criminology Research Council established by the Act.
At present sub-regulation 4(2) of the Criminology Research Regulations prescribes the Minister for Health and Community Services as the appropriate Minister for the Northern Territory and it is desired to amend the sub-regulation to refer to the current title of the relevant Minister, the “Minister for Correctional Services”.
Similarly, pursuant to sub-regulation 4(1) of, and the Schedule to, the Criminology Research Regulations, the Minister for Justice and Attorney-General is prescribed as the appropriate Minister for the State of Queensland and it is desired to amend the Schedule to refer to the current title of the relevant Minister, the “Attorney-General”.
Authorised by the Minister for Justice and Consumer Affairs for and on behalf of the Attorney-General