Lakes Act 1976
122Regulation-making power
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122 Regulation-making power (1) The Executive may make regulations for this Act. (2) A regulation may make provision in relation to the following: (a) requirements for the registration of boats; (b) the equipment to be carried on a boat; (c) the construction, design or supply of hatches and exterior doors of boats that will be, or are likely to be, used for recreational purposes on a lake; (d) the qualifications that a person requires to operate a power boat; (e) prohibiting a person from operating a kind of boat; (f) lighting, marking, removing, and disposing of obstructions to navigation in a lake area; (g) safety, including requirements for the following: (i) safety equipment of boats; (ii) navigation; (iii) operating a boat; (iv) the conduct of a person on a boat; (v) signals and lights and their use on a boat; (vi) avoiding collisions;
Miscellaneous Part 11 (vii) the use of a lake or lake area; (viii) preventing a person from interfering with a boat or lights, navigation aids, or equipment. (3) The Legislation Act, section 47 (3), (5) and (6) does not apply to the incorporation of an Australian Standard or an Australian/NewZealand Standard applied, adopted or incorporated in a regulation under this Note The text of an applied, adopted or incorporated law or instrument, whether applied as in force from time to time or at a particular time, is taken to be a notifiable instrument if the operation of the Legislation Act, s 47 (5) or (6) is not disapplied (see s 47 (7)). (4) A regulation may create offences and fix maximum penalties of not more than 30 penalty units for the offences.