169Regulations

169 Regulations

(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—

(a) determining the dimensions, boundaries, form, position and extent of an authority area; and

(b) determining the requirements to be complied with by people who wish to acquire authorities; and

(c) prescribing conditions that are to apply to a particular type of authority or to authorities generally; and

(d) prescribing the fees payable for authorities, and the fees for applications, the processing of applications, renewals, authority variations and extensions, surveys, inspections by inspectors, technical and other assessments undertaken by the Department or its agents, exemptions, registrations in the geothermal energy register, inspection of the geothermal energy register and access to released information; and

(e) prescribing annual fees payable by the holders of authorities; and

(f) prescribing the rent that is payable by the holders of authorities for occupying Crown land; and

(g) requiring the holders of authorities to submit specified information to the Minister and to keep specified information, records and samples; and

(h) requiring information to be contained in work programs, development plans, unit developments, operation plans, and other plans, manuals and reports required of authority holders; and

(i) the geothermal energy register and the documents to be registered; and

(j) regulating the extraction and treatment of geothermal energy and geothermal energy resources under an authority; and

(k) regulating unit agreements; and

(l) generally prescribing any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

(2) The regulations—

(a) may be of general or of specially limited application; and

(b) may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; and

(c) may require a matter affected by the regulations to be—

(i) in accordance with a specified standard or specified requirement; or

(ii) approved by or to the satisfaction of a specified person or a specified class of person; or

(iii) as specified in both subparagraphs (i) and (ii); and

(d) may apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document whether—

(i) wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations; or

(ii) as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time; and

(e) may confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on a specified person or a specified class of person; and