Commonwealth Numbered Acts

MINERALS (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1981 No. 81, 1981 - SECT 105

105. (1) The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act, prescribing all matters that by this Act are required or permitted to be
prescribed or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or
giving effect to this Act.

(2) In particular, but without limiting the generality of sub-section (1), the
regulations may make provision for securing, regulating, controlling or
restricting all or any of the following matters:

   (a)  the exploration of an adjacent area for minerals and the carrying on
        of operations, and the execution of works, for that purpose;

   (b)  the exploitation of the natural resources, being minerals, of an
        adjacent area and the carrying on of operations, and the execution of
        works, for that purpose;

   (c)  the conservation and protection of, and the prevention of the waste
        of, the natural resources, being minerals, of an adjacent area;

   (d)  the making good of damage to the sea-bed or subsoil in an
        adjacent area caused by the carrying on of operations connected with
        the exploration for, or the exploitation of, minerals in that area;

   (e)  the construction, erection, maintenance, operation or use of
        installations or equipment;

   (f)  the control of the flow or discharge, and the prevention of the
        escape, of water or drilling fluid or a mixture of water or drilling
        fluid with any other matter;

   (g)  the clean-up or other remedying of the effects of the escape of any
        substance or mixture of substances;

   (h)  the safety, health and welfare of persons in or about an adjacent area
        who are engaged or concerned in the exploration for, or the
        exploitation of, minerals in that area;

   (j)  the maintaining in good condition and repair of all structures,
        equipment and other property in an adjacent area used or intended to
        be used for or in connection with the exploration for, or the
        exploitation of, minerals in that area.

(3) The regulations may prescribe, in relation to the exploration for, and the
exploitation of, the natural resources, being minerals, of the continental
shelf, matters for carrying out or giving effect to the Convention.

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

   (a)  a fine not exceeding $10,000; or

   (b)  a fine not exceeding that amount for each day on which the offence is,
        as provided by the regulations, to be deemed to continue.