(1) The Governor may make regulations under this Act.
(2) In particular, but without limiting the generality of subsection (1)
, the regulations may make provision for securing, regulating, controlling, or
restricting all or any of the following matters:
(a) the exploration for petroleum and the carrying on of operations, and the
execution of works, for that purpose;
(b) the recovery of petroleum and the carrying on of operations, and the
execution of works, for that purpose;
(c) conserving and preventing the waste of the natural resources, whether
petroleum or otherwise, of the adjacent area;
(d) the 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) the construction, erection, maintenance, operation, or use of
installations or equipment;
(f) the control of the flow or discharge, and the prevention of the escape, of
petroleum, water, or drilling fluid, or a mixture of water or drilling fluid
with petroleum or any other matter;
(g) the clean-up or other remedying of the effects of the escape of petroleum;
(h) the prevention of damage to petroleum-bearing strata in an area, whether
within the adjacent area or not, in respect of which a permit, lease, or
licence is not in force;
(i) the keeping separate of –
(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) the prevention of water or other matter from entering a petroleum pool
through wells;
(k) the 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) the maintaining in good condition and repair of 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) the 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.
(2A) The regulations may make provision in relation to a 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 Tasmania), 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 that matter.
(2B) Regulations under this section 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.
(3) The regulations may prescribe, in relation to the exploration for,
and the exploitation of, the natural resources (being petroleum) of the
adjacent area, matters for carrying out or giving effect to the Convention.
(3A) The regulations may differ according to differences in time, place
or circumstances.
(4) The regulations may provide for a contravention of or a failure to
comply with any of the regulations to be an offence and may provide, in
respect of any such offence, for the imposition of –
