31.—(1) The Authority may, with the Minister’s approval, make regulations necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) In particular, the Authority may, with the Minister’s approval, make regulations for or with respect to all or any of the following matters:
(a)
the class or classes of registered providers;
(b)
the fees to be paid for any thing or matter done or to be done under this Act in respect of which it appears to the Authority to be expedient to charge fees;
(c)
the conduct of taxi drivers in relation to the use of any registered provider’s third‑party taxi booking service;
(d)
the offences under this Act which may be compounded;
(e)
anything that is required or permitted to be prescribed under this Act.
(3) The regulations made under this section may —
(a)
provide that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be punishable —
(i)
in the case of a first offence, with a fine not exceeding $1,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months; and
(ii)
in the case of a second or subsequent offence, with a fine not exceeding $2,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months; and
(b)
provide for such transitional, savings and other consequential, incidental and supplemental provisions as the Authority, with the Minister’s approval, considers necessary or expedient.
(4) All regulations made under this section are to be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.