Great Ocean Road and Environs Protection Act 2020

The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—

any matter or thing authorised or required to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed for carrying this Act into effect; and

prescribing fees for parking vehicles in the Great Ocean Road coast and parks, other than parking on land managed under the National Parks Act 1975; and

prescribing tolls, fees and charges for entry of persons, vehicles and animals to land controlled and managed by the Authority under this Act or any other Act, other than—

land managed under the National Parks Act 1975; and

land reserved under the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978; and

prescribing penalties not exceeding 20 penalty units for a contravention of the regulations.

Before regulations are made for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) or (1)(c), the Minister must consider any advice of the Authority in respect of any financial impacts or burdens on local communities of the tolls, fees and charges.

The regulations—

may be of general or limited application; and

may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; and

may confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on a specified person or a specified class of person; and

may require a matter affected by the regulations to be approved by or to the satisfaction of a specified person or a specified class of person; and

may provide in a specified case or class of cases for the exemption of persons or things or a class of persons or things from any of the provisions of the regulations whether unconditionally or on specified conditions and either wholly or to such an extent as is specified.