Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Governor - General may make regulations 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.
Offences and civil penalties
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may:
(a) prescribe penalties for offences against the regulations that do not exceed 50 penalty units; and
(b) declare that specified provisions of the regulations are civil penalty provisions for the purposes of this Act, and prescribe penalties for contraventions of such provisions that do not exceed:
(i) for a body corporate--250 penalty units; or
(ii) in any other case--50 penalty units.