New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POULTRY MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1986 - SECT 23

23 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.

(1A) In particular, a regulation:

(a) may prescribe matters that poultry growing agreements must address, and

(b) may prescribe standard provisions for inclusion in poultry growing agreements in relation to those matters.

(2) A regulation may create an offence punishable by a penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units.

(3) A provision of a regulation may:

(a) apply generally or be limited in its application by reference to specified exceptions or factors,

(b) apply differently according to different factors of a specified kind, or

(c) authorise any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied or regulated by any specified person or body,

or may do any combination of those things.