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WATER ACT 2007 - SECT 256 Regulations

WATER ACT 2007 - SECT 256

Regulations

  (1)   The Governor - General may make regulations prescribing matters:

  (a)   required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

  (b)   necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

  (2)   Without limiting subsection   (1), the regulations may make provision in relation to matters of a transitional nature (including the prescription of any saving or application provision) relating to:

  (a)   the amendments or repeals made by this Act; or

  (b)   the enactment of this Act.

  (3)   Regulations made for the purposes of Part   7 may make provision for or in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification (including any omission, addition or substitution), any matter contained in a written instrument or other document:

  (a)   as in force or existing at a particular time; or

  (b)   as in force or existing from time to time;

even if the written instrument or other document does not yet exist when the regulations are made.

  (4)   Subsection   (3) has effect despite subsection   14(2) of the Legislation Act 2003 .

  (5)   If regulations made for the purposes of Part   7 make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating a matter contained in a written instrument or other document, the Director of Meteorology must ensure that:

  (a)   the text of the matter applied, adopted or incorporated is made publicly available on the Bureau's website, unless that text is set out in the regulations; and

  (b)   if the text of the matter is applied, adopted or incorporated as in force or existing from time to time--any subsequent amendments of that text are made publicly available on that website.

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