Sustainability Victoria Act 2005

The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to anything required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

The regulations may—

be of general or limited application;

differ according to differences in time, place or circumstances;

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

may leave any matter or thing to be from time to time approved, determined, applied, dispensed with or regulated by a specified person or class of person;

may provide in a specified case or class of case for the exemption of persons, entities or things or a class of person, entity or thing from any of the provisions of the regulations, whether unconditionally or on specified conditions, and either wholly or to the extent specified;

may apply, adopt or incorporate, with or without modification, any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method formulated, issued, prescribed or published by any authority or body whether—

wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations;

as formulated, issued, prescribed (whether under this Act or any other Act) or published at the time the regulations are made or at any time before then;

as formulated, issued, prescribed (whether under this Act or any other Act) or published from time to time.