Victorian Current Acts

CONSERVATION, FORESTS AND LANDS ACT 1987 - SECT 99

    (1)     The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to any of the following matters—

        (a)     any matter with respect to which a Code of Practice may provide, and generally giving effect to Codes of Practice;

        (b)     prescribing forms;

        (c)     prescribing fees;

        (d)     generally prescribing any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

    (2)     The regulations—

        (a)     may be of general or limited application; and

        (b)     may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstances; and

        (c)     may leave any matter to be approved or determined by a specified person or body or a specified class of persons or bodies; and

        (d)     may apply or incorporate by reference any documents mentioned in a Code of Practice or formulated in accordance with the regulations or any guidelines prepared under this Act; and

        (e)     may impose penalties not exceeding 10 penalty units for contravention of the regulations.

S. 99(3) inserted by No. 40/2019 s. 98.

    (3)     The regulations may allow for different amounts of penalties for a fisheries infringement offence according to the circumstances in which the offence is committed, or the extent of the contravention constituting the offence.

S. 99(4) inserted by No. 40/2019 s. 98.

    (4)     In this section—

"fisheries infringement offence" means an offence against the Fisheries Act 1995 that is prescribed for the purposes of section 91(1).