New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COAL INDUSTRY ACT 2001 - SECT 53

53 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is 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 for or with respect to the following:

(a) requiring an approved company to provide the Minister, within the prescribed time, with such information (including copies of documents) relating to the company’s exercise of its functions as the regulation may specify,

(b) matters that are to be included in the annual operating plan of an approved company,

(c) modifying the functions conferred on inspectors under this Act (including withdrawing any of those functions from inspectors),

(d) regulating inspectors in the exercise of their functions,

(e) regulating or prohibiting acts or omissions, or acts or omissions of a kind, specified in the regulation in relation to one or more approved companies (or a class, or classes, of approved companies) so specified.

(3) A regulation may create an offence punishable by a penalty not exceeding 30 penalty units.

(4) Before a regulation is made for the purposes of subsection (2) (e), the Minister must certify to the Governor that the regulation is necessary to protect the rights or interests, or to ensure the equitable treatment, of a particular worker engaged in the coal industry or owner of a mine.

(5) At least 21 days before a draft regulation under this section is presented to the Governor, the Minister must furnish a copy of the draft to the Board of Directors of each approved company that will be affected by the proposed regulation.