Section 34

classes of licences;

the form and manner in which, and the time within which, an application for a licence or an application to renew a licence may be made, and the information and evidence required to be provided in connection with such an application;

the carrying out of probity checks of applicants for a licence, and of individuals who are or are proposed to be a manager of boarding premises operated as a foreign employee dormitory;

the duties of licensed operators in connection with operating foreign employee dormitories;

the appointment, duties and qualifications of managers of boarding premises operated as foreign employee dormitories, including but not limited to the maximum number of such premises in respect of which the manager may be appointed as manager;

standards to be observed and facilities to be provided in boarding premises operated as foreign employee dormitories to prevent overcrowding, for the maintenance, cleanliness, water supply, sanitation and hygiene of the premises, and generally in connection with the health, safety and wellbeing of foreign employees residing at the premises;

a standard form of occupancy agreement, for use for different classes of boarding premises operated as foreign employee dormitories, occupancy agreements or parties and the enforceability of occupancy agreements that are not in the standard form, except that the terms of standard forms of occupancy agreements must not apply to occupancy agreements entered into before the regulations for those standard forms take effect;

the fees to be paid in respect of applications for, and the grant and renewal or late renewal of, any licence and otherwise in connection with the administration of this Act, and the waiver, reduction or refund of fees charged;

the records that are to be kept by licensed operators and managers of boarding premises operated as foreign employee dormitories and the provision of returns and other information with respect to the premises.

prescribing that the buildings, structures or facilities of a specified or described nature, or adapted or designed in a specified or described way, are to be regarded by the Commissioner under section 2(2) as a single complex of premises in the administration of this Act; or

prescribing criteria by which the Commissioner may determine under section 2(2) whether buildings, structures or facilities are to be regarded as a single complex of premises in the administration of this Act.

prescribing the criteria by which the Commissioner is to determine the occupancy load of any premises; and

adopting or incorporating by reference, any number —

contained in or prescribed by or under any written law as in force at a particular time or from time to time relating to maximum occupancy of boarding premises; or

contained in or specified by any agreement, permission, approval, authorisation or other document (by whatever name) made with, issued or granted or to be made with, issued or granted, to a proprietor or an operator of boarding premises relating to its maximum occupancy by a public authority.

prescribe the offences under this Act that may be compounded;

provide that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $50,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or with both; and

provide for such transitional, saving and other consequential, incidental and supplemental provisions as the Minister considers necessary or expedient.