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133 Regulations
(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to any 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 limited application; and
(b) may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; and
(c) may leave any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied, dispensed with or regulated by a specified person or class of persons; and
(d) may provide in a specified case or class of case for the exemption of persons or things or a class of persons or things from any of the provisions of the regulations, whether unconditionally or on specified conditions and either wholly or to the extent specified; and
(e) may confer powers or impose duties in connection with the regulations on any specified person or specified class of persons; and
(f) may apply, adopt or incorporate with or without modification, any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method formulated, issued, prescribed (whether under this or any other Act) or published by any person—
(i) wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations; or
(ii) as formulated, issued, prescribed (whether under this or any other Act) or published at the time the regulations are made or at any time before then; or
(iii) as formulated, issued, prescribed (whether under this or any other Act) or published from time to time; and
(g) may impose a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units for a contravention of the regulations.
Pt 6 (Headings and
ss 134–149) repealed by No. 67/2014 s. 149.
Pt 7 (Heading and s. 150) inserted by No. 10/2015 s. 16.