118Regulations

118 Regulations (1) The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing 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.

Water Supply and Sewerage Services Act 2000 61 (2) The Regulations may deal with the following matters: (a) the supply of water or sewerage services; (b) the construction, installation and positioning of water supply infrastructure and sewerage services infrastructure; (c) technical, operational and safety requirements and standards and monitoring and enforcing compliance with the prescribed requirements and standards; (d) the exemption (conditionally or unconditionally) of persons or operations from the application of this Act or specified provisions of this Act; (e) fees to be paid in respect of any matter under this Act and the recovery, refund, waiver or reduction of those fees; (f) provide for the payment of a prescribed amount instead of a penalty that may otherwise be imposed for an offence against this Act or regulations made under this Act and for the service of a notice relating to payment of the amount on a person alleged to have committed the offence and the particulars to be included in that notice; and (g) penalties not exceeding 100 penalty units for offences against the Regulations. (3) If the Regulations grant an exemption from the requirement to hold a licence under Part 2, the Regulations may require a person exempted from the requirement to be treated as a licensee for the purposes of specified provisions of this Act. (4) The Regulations may provide that any act or thing, or kind of act or thing, of or relating to a licensee or a related corporation of a licensee is authorised for a particular period for the purposes of Part IV of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). (5) The Regulations may: (a) be of general application or limited in application according to the persons, areas, times or circumstances to which they are expressed to apply; (b) provide that a matter or thing in respect of which regulations may be made is to be determined, regulated or prohibited according to the discretion of the Minister or the Utilities Commission; and

Water Supply and Sewerage Services Act 2000 62 (c) refer to or incorporate, wholly or partially and with or without modification, any standard or other document prepared or published by a body referred to in the Regulations, as is in force from time to time or as in force at a particular time.