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Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
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276 Regulation-making powers
(1) The Administrator may make Regulations in relation to:
(a) any matter relating to work health and safety; and
(b) any matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be
prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed
to give effect to this Act.
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(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Regulations may make provision
for or in relation to matters set out in Schedule 3.
(3) The Regulations may:
(a) be of general or limited application; or
(b) differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance;
or
(c) leave any matter or thing to be, from time to time, determined,
applied or approved by the regulator, an inspector or any other
prescribed person or body of persons; or
(d) apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any
document formulated, issued or published by a person or body
whether:
(i) with or without modification; or
(ii) as in force at a particular time or as in force or remade
from time to time; or
(e) prescribe exemptions from complying with any of the
Regulations on the terms and conditions (if any) prescribed; or
(f) allow the regulator to provide exemptions from complying with
any of the Regulations on the terms and conditions (if any)
prescribed or, if the Regulations allow, on the terms and
conditions (if any) determined by the regulator; or
(g) prescribe fees for doing any act or providing any service for
the purposes of this Act and prescribe the circumstances and
way in which fees can be refunded, waived or reduced; or
(h) prescribe a penalty for any contravention of the Regulations
not exceeding $30 000.
(4) If the Regulations are made as mentioned in section 65D of the
Interpretation Act 1978, the prescribed amount for an offence must
not exceed 20% of the penalty that may otherwise be imposed for
the offence.
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