Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The Governor may
make regulations —
(a)
prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act to be
prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for giving effect
to the purposes of this Act; and
(b) if
any act, matter or thing required or authorised to be done under or in
relation to an NEPM for the purpose of implementing the NEPM cannot
conveniently be required or authorised under the provisions of this Act,
requiring or authorising the doing of such act, matter or thing.
(2) Without limiting
the generality of subsection (1), regulations may be made under that
subsection in respect of the matters set out in Schedule 2.
(3) Regulations made
under subsection (1) may —
(a)
adopt, either wholly or in part or with modifications and either specifically
or by reference, any rules, standards, regulations, local laws, by-laws,
codes, instructions, specifications or administrative procedures prescribed or
published by any person or public authority, including the Authority and the
CEO, either as in force at the time of prescription or publication or as
amended from time to time thereafter; or
(b)
without derogating from section 43 of the Interpretation Act 1984 , be
general or be restricted in operation in respect of time, place, persons or
circumstances, whether or not any such time, place, persons or circumstances
is or are determined or ascertainable before, at or after the making of those
regulations.
(4) Regulations made
under subsection (1)(b) are valid and have effect even if they are
inconsistent with or repugnant to a provision contained elsewhere in this Act.
[Section 123 amended: No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 14
of 1998 s. 35; No. 54 of 2003 s. 137 and 140(2).]