21. (1) Section 37P of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsections for subsections (1) and (2):

“(1) The Minister shall make regulations to provide for such matters of procedure and administration as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient in respect of applications for permission under section 37L and decisions under section 37N.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations under this section may—

(a) make provision for the payment of fees to the Board, and

(b) make provision for matters of procedure in relation to the making of an application under section 37L, including the giving of public notice and the making of applications in electronic form.”.

(2) All regulations made under section 37P of the Principal Act and in force immediately before the date of the coming into operation of subsection (1) shall be deemed on and after that date to have been made under section 37P of the Principal Act as amended by subsection (1).

(3) Every act done, or purporting to have been done, under the regulations referred to in subsection (2) before the date of the coming into operation of subsection (1) shall on and after that date be, and be deemed always to have been, valid and effectual for all purposes.

(4) If subsection (2) or (3) would, but for this subsection, conflict with a constitutional right of any person, the operation of the subsection shall be subject to such limitation as is necessary to secure that it does not so conflict but shall be otherwise of full force and effect.