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Environment Protection Act 1997
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166 Regulation-making power
(1) The Executive may make regulations for this Act.
(2) A regulation may make provision in relation to the sampling and
analysis of pollutants.
(3) A regulation may also prescribe offences for contraventions of a
regulation and prescribe maximum penalties of not more than
20 penalty units for offences against a regulation.
(4) A regulation may make provision in relation to the distribution,
purchase, sale, dispensation or use of petroleum products, including
regulating or prohibiting certain conduct.
(5) A regulation may make provision in relation to the lighting, use or
maintenance of a fire in the open air (other than a fire to which
schedule 1, section 1.2, item 28 relates), including regulating or
prohibiting certain conduct.
(6) A regulation may make provision in relation to—
(a) the manufacture, purchase, sale, storage, supply, transport, use,
disposal, discharge or emission of, or other dealing with, a
specified pollutant, article or other thing; or
(b) the servicing of equipment containing a specified pollutant,
article or other thing; or
(c) the servicing of equipment used in relation to the manufacture,
purchase, sale, storage, supply, transport, use, disposal,
discharge or emission of, or other dealing with, a specified
pollutant, article or other thing;
including regulating or prohibiting certain conduct.
(7) A regulation may make provision in relation to ambient
environmental standards.
(8) A regulation may make provision in relation to preventing or limiting
pollution on development sites, including regulating or prohibiting
certain conduct.
(9) A regulation may amend schedule 1—
(a) by—
(i) amending activities mentioned in the schedule, or
(ii) adding activities to, or deleting activities from, the
schedule; and
(b) by making any other amendments of that schedule arising from,
connected with or consequential on an amendment under
paragraph (a).