Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) The Regulations may make provision for securing, regulating, controlling or restricting any of the following matters:
(a) exploration for petroleum and the carrying on of operations and the execution of works for that purpose;
(b) recovery of petroleum and the carrying on of operations and the execution of works for that purpose;
(c) conserving and preventing the waste of natural resources whether petroleum or otherwise of the adjacent area;
(d) construction and operation of pipelines, water lines, secondary lines, pumping stations, tank stations or valve stations and the carrying on of operations, and the execution of works, for any of those purposes;
(e) construction, erection, maintenance, operation or use of installations or equipment;
(f) control of the flow or discharge, and the prevention of the escape, of petroleum, water, drilling fluid or a mixture of water or drilling fluid with petroleum or any other matter;
(g) clean-up or other remedying of the effects of the escape of petroleum;
(h) prevention of damage to petroleum-bearing strata in an area, whether in the adjacent area or not, in respect of which a permit, lease or licence is not in force;
(i) keeping separate:
(i) each petroleum pool discovered in a permit area, lease area or licence area; and
(ii) each source of water discovered in a permit area, lease area or licence area;
(j) prevention of water or other matter from entering a petroleum pool through wells;
(k) prevention of the waste or escape of petroleum or water from a pipeline, water line, secondary line, pumping station, tank station or valve station;
(l) maintaining in good condition and repair all structures, equipment and other property in the adjacent area used or intended to be used for or in connection with the exploration for, or the exploitation of, petroleum in the adjacent area;
(m) removal from the adjacent area of structures, equipment and other property brought into the adjacent area for or in connection with exploration for, or the exploitation of, petroleum that are not used or intended to be used in connection with exploration for, or the exploitation of, petroleum in the adjacent area;
(n) provide that a contravention or failure to comply with the Regulations is an offence and prescribing:
(i) a penalty of not more than 100 penalty units for a natural person and 500 penalty units for a body corporate for the offence; and
(ii) a further penalty of not more 100 penalty units for a natural person and 500 penalty units for a body corporate for each day on which the offence occurs.
(3) The Regulations may make provision in relation to matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, a code of practice or standard contained in an instrument (including an instrument issued or made outside Australia), as in force or existing at the time when the Regulations take effect or as in force or existing from time to time, being a code of practice or standard that is relevant to the matter.
(4) The Regulations may prohibit the doing of an act or thing either unconditionally or subject to conditions, including conditions requiring the grant, as prescribed by the Regulations, of the consent or approval of a person specified in the Regulations.
(5) The Regulations may prescribe, in relation to the exploration for petroleum, and the exploitation of, the adjacent area, matters for carrying out or giving effect to the Convention entitled "Convention on the Continental Shelf" signed at Geneva on 29 April 1958.
(6) The Regulations may:
(a) make different provision in relation to:
(i) different persons or matters; or
(ii) different classes of persons or matters; or
(b) apply differently by reference to specified exceptions or factors.