73.—(1) The Council may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for, or in respect of, every purpose which is considered by the Council necessary or expedient for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Council may make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:
(a)
to prescribe the manner and form in which applications for ticket payment service licences are to be made, the documents to be submitted in support of such applications and the form of such licences;
(b)
to prescribe a scale of fees for and ticket payment service licences;
(c)
to prescribe the manner and form in which applications for the approval of bus fares or train fares, or a pricing policy for bus services or train services, are to be made and the documents to be submitted in support of such applications;
(d)
to prescribe the date and manner by which any contribution is payable under section 50 to the Public Transport Fund, the penalties for the late payment of any such contribution and to impose interest for late payment of any such contribution or penalty;
(e)
to require returns to be made by persons by whom contributions under section 50 are payable, and the conditions relating to the making of such returns;
(f)
to regulate the procedure of the Council, to the extent not inconsistent with the Public Sector (Governance) Act 2018;
(g)
to prescribe the powers and duties of the officers and employees of the Council;
(h)
to control and regulate the conduct of the officers and employees of the Council;
(i)
to prescribe the offences under this Act that may be compounded under section 67;
(j)
to prescribe devices for the purposes of section 55 and the manner of using (including testing) those devices;
(k)
to prescribe the processes for loading information onto a prescribed device or a prescribed computer system, copying or transferring information between prescribed devices or between a prescribed device and a prescribed computer system, storing of information by a prescribed device or prescribed computer system and producing a printed record of information stored by a prescribed device or prescribed computer system;
(l)
to prescribe anything that is required to be prescribed under this Act.
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(3) The Council may, in making any regulations, provide that any contravention of, or failure or neglect to comply with, any regulation shall be an offence and may prescribe a fine with which such offence shall be punishable but so that no such fine shall exceed for any one offence the sum of $5,000.