157Regulations

#### 157 Regulations (1) The Governor‑General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters that by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act. (2) In particular, but without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may make provision for securing, regulating, controlling or restricting all or any of the following matters: (a) the exploration for petroleum and the carrying on of operations, and the execution of works, for that purpose; (b) the recovery of petroleum and the carrying on of operations, and the execution of works, for that purpose; (c) conserving, and preventing the waste of, the natural resources, whether petroleum or otherwise, of the continental shelf; (d) the construction and operation of pipelines, water lines, secondary lines, pumping stations, tank stations or valve stations and the carrying on of operations, and the execution of works, for any of those purposes; (e) the construction, erection, maintenance, operation or use of installations, equipment or facilities; (f) the control of the flow or discharge, and the prevention of the escape, of petroleum, water or drilling fluid, or a mixture of water or drilling fluid with petroleum or any other matter; (g) the clean‑up or other remedying of the effects of the escape of petroleum; (h) the prevention of damage to petroleum‑bearing strata in an area, whether in an adjacent area or not, in respect of which a permit, lease or licence is not in force; (i) the keeping separate of: (i) each petroleum pool discovered in a permit area, lease area or licence area; and (ii) each source of water discovered in a permit area, lease area or licence area; (j) the prevention of water or other matter from entering a petroleum pool through wells; (k) the prevention of the waste or escape of petroleum or water from a pipeline, water line, secondary line, pumping station, tank station or valve station; (l) the maintaining in good condition and repair of all structures, equipment and other property in an adjacent area used or intended to be used for or in connexion with exploration for, or the exploitation of, petroleum in the adjacent area; and (m) the removal from an adjacent area of structures, equipment and other property brought into the adjacent area for or in connexion with exploration for, or the exploitation of, petroleum that are not used or intended to be used in connexion with exploration for, or the exploitation of, petroleum in the adjacent area. (2A) The regulations may make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, a code of practice or standard contained in an instrument (including an instrument issued or made outside Australia), as in force or existing at the time when the regulations take effect or as in force or existing from time to time, being a code of practice or standard that is relevant to that matter. (2B) Regulations under this section may prohibit the doing of an act or thing either unconditionally or subject to conditions, including conditions requiring the grant, as prescribed by the regulations, of the consent or approval of a person specified in the regulations. (3) The regulations may, to the extent to which this Act does not do so, provide for the exercise of Australia’s rights, and compliance with Australia’s obligations, under international law in relation to the exploration for, and the exploitation of, petroleum as a natural resource of the continental shelf (whether in an adjacent area or not). > Note: Subsection (1) provides that the regulations must not be inconsistent with this Act. (4) The regulations may make provisions in relation to the exploration for, and the exploitation of, the natural resources (being petroleum) of the sea‑bed and subsoil of the submarine areas within the territorial limits of the Commonwealth and the Territories similar to the provisions that, under subsection (3), may be made with respect to the exploration for, and the exploitation of, the natural resources (being petroleum) of the continental shelf. (5) The regulations may provide, in respect of an offence against the regulations, for the imposition of: (a) a fine not exceeding 100 penalty units; or (b) a fine not exceeding that amount for each day on which the offence occurs.