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Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991
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(1) The Governor‑General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act;
and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, may make regulations prescribing:
(c) procedures for the election of persons, under section 25A, as health and safety representatives; and
(f) the manner in which notices are to be served under this Act or the regulations; and
(g) forms for the purposes of this Act or the regulations; and
(h) civil or criminal penalties, for a breach of the regulations, not exceeding:
(i) 50 penalty units for an individual; or
(ii) 250 penalty units for a body corporate.
(2) Where the Governor‑General is satisfied that:
(a) a power or function is conferred on a person under a law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory; and
(b) this Act, or a provision of this Act, prevents the proper performance of that function, or the proper exercise of that power;
the Governor‑General may make regulations declaring that this Act or that provision does not apply to that person, or does not apply to that person in the circumstances specified in the regulations, and regulations so made have effect accordingly.
(3) Regulations made under subsection (2) cease to have effect 5 years after the day on which the regulations come into operation unless:
(a) they are sooner repealed; or
(b) they provide that they are to cease to have effect on a day earlier than the first‑mentioned day;
but regulations that are the same in substance as the regulations that have ceased to have effect by virtue of this subsection may be made under subsection (2) at any time after such regulations have so ceased to have effect.
(4) In subsection (2), this Act includes the regulations.