Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ANTARCTIC TREATY (ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION) ACT 1980 No. 103 of 1980 - SECT 29

29. (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 or the Agreed Measures.

(2) Without limiting the generality of sub-section (1), regulations may be
made-

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

   (b)  providing for the conservation of Antarctic fauna and flora and the
        protection of the environment of the Antarctic;

   (c)  regulating or prohibiting the pollution of soil, air, water or ice
        where such pollution is, or is likely to be, harmful to the fauna,
        flora and environment of the Antarctic;

   (d)  regulating the conduct of persons in specially protected areas and
        sites of special scientific interest;

   (e)  providing for giving effect to the plans of management relating to
        sites of special scientific interest;

   (f)  regulating or prohibiting the taking of animals, plants, viruses,
        bacteria, yeasts and fungi into, or out of, the Antarctic;

   (g)  providing for the control and destruction in the Antarctic of animals,
        plants, viruses, bacteria, yeasts and fungi that are not
        indigenous to the Antarctic;

   (h)  providing for the prevention of the introduction of diseases and
        parasites into the Antarctic;

   (i)  providing for the collection of specimens and the pursuit of research
        in the Antarctic for scientific purposes;

   (j)  regulating or prohibiting, for purposes related to the conservation of
        Antarctic fauna and flora and the protection of the environment of the
        Antarctic, the use of vehicles, sleds and vessels in, and the landing
        and use of aircraft in and the flying of aircraft over, specified
        areas of the Antarctic; and

   (k)  providing for any matter incidental to or connected with any of the
        foregoing.

(3) 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.

(4) 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)  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.

(5) The regulations may provide, in respect of an offence against the
regulations, for the imposition of-

   (a)  a fine not exceeding $2,000; or

   (b)  a fine not exceeding $200 for each day during which the offence
        continues.

(6) The limitation imposed by sub-section (5) on the penalties that may be
prescribed by the regulations does not prevent the regulations from requiring
a person to make a statutory declaration.