Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005

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:

prescribe fees in respect of matters under this Act; and

prescribe penalties of not more than 50 penalty units for offences against the regulations; and

declare that specified provisions of the regulations are civil penalty provisions for the purposes of this Act, and prescribe penalties for contraventions of such provisions that do not exceed:

for a body corporate—250 penalty units; or

in any other case—50 penalty units.