Waterways Conservation Act 1976

The Governor may make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.

Regulations made under this Act —

apply only within the boundaries of the waters or associated land to which this Act applies; and

may be limited in their application to time, place, circumstance, or class of case; and

may provide that any act or thing may or shall be done with the approval or to the satisfaction of a specified person or class of persons; and

may provide that any act or thing shall be, or shall not be, permitted; and

may confer a discretionary authority; and

may provide for the payment or remission of fees and charges, for the form and manner of making applications, for the grant of exemptions, for the service and enforcement of orders, for the recovery of fees, charges and expenses, and for the general administration of this Act; and

may impose a penalty not exceeding —

where the specific penalty is provided in the section of this Act pursuant to which the regulation was made, the amount of that specific penalty; or

in any other case, $500, and as a continuing daily penalty $50,

The regulations may provide for a modified penalty, not exceeding $50, to be payable by a person who does not contest an allegation that he committed any specified breach of the provisions of this Act, and shall provide that the due payment of a modified penalty is a defence to a charge of the breach in respect of which that modified penalty was paid.