(1) The Governor may
make regulations in relation to—
(a) any
matter relating to work health and safety; and
(b) any
matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or that is
necessary or convenient to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.
(2) Without limiting
subsection (1), the regulations may make provision in relation to matters
set out in Schedule 3.
(3) The regulations
may—
(a) be
of general or limited application; or
(b)
differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; or
(c)
leave any matter or thing to be, from time to time, determined, applied or
approved by the regulator, an inspector or any other prescribed person or body
of persons; or
(d)
apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document formulated,
issued or published by a person or body whether—
(i)
with or without modification; or
(ii)
as in force at a particular time or as in force or remade
from time to time; or
(e)
prescribe exemptions from complying with any of the regulations on the terms
and conditions (if any) prescribed; or
(f)
allow the regulator to provide exemptions from complying with any of the
regulations on the terms and conditions (if any) prescribed or, if the
regulations allow, on the terms and conditions (if any) determined by the
regulator; or
(g)
prescribe fees for doing any act or providing any service for the purposes of
this Act and prescribe the circumstances and way in which fees can be
refunded, waived or reduced; or
(h)
prescribe a penalty for any contravention of the regulations not exceeding
$30 000; or
(i)
prescribe—
(i)
offences against this Act or the regulations that are to
be taken to be infringement offences for the purposes of this Act; and
(ii)
an expiation fee for each offence which is declared or
prescribed by this Act or the regulations to be an infringement offence, which
fee must not exceed 20% of the penalty for the offence which is declared or
prescribed as the infringement offence.