New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STOCK (CHEMICAL RESIDUES) ACT 1975 - SECT 16

16 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing any matter which is required or permitted to be prescribed or which is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Governor may make regulations for or with respect to:

(a) schemes of identification of stock (whether on a compulsory or voluntary basis) and the tracing of stock, and

(b) the procedures to be adopted by an inspector when taking for analysis specimens or samples under section 5, and

(c) prescribing and regulating the branding, marking, earmarking or tagging of stock subject to a detention notice.

(3) The regulations may impose a penalty not exceeding 50 penalty units for an offence arising under the regulations.

(4) Regulations may be made so as to apply differently according to such factors as may be specified in the regulations.

(5) The regulations may authorise any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied or regulated by the Minister, the Director-General, an inspector or any other officer specified therein, either generally or for any class of cases or in a particular case.

(6) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (2) (a) may provide for the application (with or without modification), for the purposes of this Act, of schemes of identification of stock established under the Stock Diseases Act 1923 and the use, for the purposes of this Act, of data recorded under those schemes.