28Local regulations

28 Local regulations

28 Local regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations (local regulations), not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2) The power to make local regulations includes the power to make such regulations as are contemplated by the Heavy Vehicle National Law (NSW) as being made under this Act.

(3) Without limitation, the local regulations may—

(a) amend Schedules 1 and 2 to insert, vary or omit modifications to the Heavy Vehicle National Law set out in the Schedule to the Queensland Act, or to the national regulations, for the purpose of altering their application in New South Wales to heavy vehicles and to persons and bodies in connection with heavy vehicles, and

(b), (c) (Repealed)

(d) provide that a provision of a law of another participating jurisdiction is to have effect (generally or in particular circumstances, and with or without modifications, as provided in the local regulations) as if the provision formed part of the Heavy Vehicle National Law set out in the Schedule to the Queensland Act or that Law as applied in a participating jurisdiction.

(3A) Without limiting subsection (3) (a), local regulations that amend Schedule 2 may amend that Schedule so as to insert, vary or omit modifications to any national regulations (including any national regulations that were not included in Schedule 2 when it first commenced).

(4) The local regulations may create offences punishable by a penalty not exceeding 100 penalty units.

(5) (Repealed)

s 28: Am 2013 No 71, Sch 1 [23]–[30].