clause 34 provides that the Attorney-General must, if the request is in relation to an offence punishable with at least 5 years imprisonment, take all appropriate measures to obtain necessary authorisation (including any warrants) to execute the request accordingly. 2.42 Clause 35 of the Bill empowers the Minister responsible for communications to designate a point of contact or ‘24/7 network’, who must be available on a twenty-four hour, seven-day-a-week basis, in order to ensure the provision of immediate assistance for the purpose of investigations or proceedings concerning criminal offences related to computer systems and data, or for the collection of evidence in electronic form of a criminal offence. Clause 35 also provides that the point of contact must be properly resourced and that the point of contact also has the authority to coordinate and enable access to international mutual assistance under the Bill. 2.43 Part 7 of the Bill provides the miscellaneous provisions. 2.44 Clause 36 of the Bill empowers the Minister responsible for communications (‘Minister’) to make regulations to prescribe matters that are required or permitted by the Bill to be prescribed or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Bill and generally for achieving the purposes of the Bill. Clause 36 of the Bill also empowers the Minister to make regulations prescribing offences and penalties not exceeding, in the case of an individual a fine of $50,000 or imprisonment for a term of 15 years or both, or in the case of a body corporate a fine of $200,000. 3.0 MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY 3.1 The Bill comes under the responsibility of the Minister responsible for communications. A. SAYED-KHAIYUM Attorney-General 31