Water Act 2007

The Governor‑General may make regulations prescribing matters:

required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may make provision in relation to matters of a transitional nature (including the prescription of any saving or application provision) relating to:

the amendments or repeals made by this Act; or

the enactment of this Act.

Regulations made for the purposes of Division 3 of Part 5A, Part 7 or Part 7A may make provision for or in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification (including any omission, addition or substitution), any matter contained in a written instrument or other document:

as in force or existing at a particular time; or

as in force or existing from time to time;

Subsection (3) has effect despite subsection 14(2) of the Legislation Act 2003.

If regulations made for the purposes of Division 3 of Part 5A, Part 7 or Part 7A make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating a matter contained in a written instrument or other document, the Director of Meteorology must ensure that:

the text of the matter applied, adopted or incorporated is made publicly available on the Bureau’s website, unless that text is set out in the regulations; and

if the text of the matter is applied, adopted or incorporated as in force or existing from time to time—any subsequent amendments of that text are made publicly available on that website.