Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ANTARCTIC MARINE LIVING RESOURCES CONSERVATION ACT 1981 No. 30 of 1981 - SECT 24

24. (1) The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with
this Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be
prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or
giving effect to this Act, the Convention or conservation measures and, in
particular -

   (a)  providing for functions and powers to be conferred, and duties to be
        imposed, upon inspectors; and

   (b)  providing, in respect of an offence against a provision of the
        regulations, for the imposition of -

        (i)    if the offender is a natural person - a fine not exceeding
               $2,000 or $200 for each day during which the offence continues;
               or

        (ii)   if the offender is a body corporate - a fine not exceeding
               $5,000 or $500 for each day during which the offence continues.

(2) The power to make regulations conferred by this Act may be exercised -

   (a)  in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to
        all those cases subject to specified exceptions, or in relation to any
        specified cases or classes of case; and

   (b)  so as to make, as respects the cases in relation to which it is
        exercised, the same provision for all those cases or different
        provision for different cases or classes of case.

(3) The power to make regulations conferred by this Act shall not be taken, by
implication, to exclude the power to make provision for or in relation to a
matter by reason only of the fact that -

   (a)  provision is made by this Act in relation to that matter or another
        matter; or

   (b)  power is expressly conferred by this Act to make provision by
        regulation for or in relation to another matter.

(4) The limitation imposed by paragraph (1) (b) on the penalties that may be
prescribed by the regulations does not prevent the regulations from requiring
a person to make a statutory declaration.