Heavy Vehicle National Law Act 2012

For the purposes of this section, the designated authority is the Queensland Governor acting with the advice of the Executive Council of Queensland and on the unanimous recommendation of the responsible Ministers.

The designated authority may make regulations for the purposes of this Law.

The regulations may provide for—

any matter a provision of this Law states may be provided for in the regulations; and

the imposition of a maximum fine for a contravention of a provision of the regulations of not more than—

for a contravention by an individual—$4000; or

in any other case—$20000; and

any other matter that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Law.

Subsection (3)(b) does not require a provision of the regulations prescribing a maximum fine for an offence to expressly prescribe a maximum fine for a body corporate different to the maximum fine for an individual.

In this section—

a person acting under a delegation under section 40 of the Constitution of Queensland 2001; and

a person for the time being administering the Government of Queensland under section 41 of the Constitution of Queensland 2001.