New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SMOKE-FREE ENVIRONMENT ACT 2000 - 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.

(2) In particular, the regulations may make provision for or with respect to the following:

(a) the display within enclosed public places of signs relating to smoking,

(b) the content, dimensions and location of those signs,

(c) the requirements to be observed by occupiers of enclosed public places to facilitate compliance with this Act and the regulations,

(d) the powers of inspectors,

(e) guidelines in relation to determining what is an enclosed public place and when a covered outside area is considered to be substantially enclosed for the purposes of this Act,

(f) the determination of what is a room (including a bar room, gaming machine room or recreation room) for the purposes of this Act.

(3) A regulation may create an offence punishable by a penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units in the case of a natural person and 25 penalty units in the case of a body corporate.