Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—
(a) determining the dimensions, boundaries, form, position and extent of an authority area; and
(b) determining the requirements to be complied with by people who wish to acquire authorities; and
(c) prescribing conditions that are to apply to a particular type of authority or to authorities generally; and
(d) prescribing the fees payable for authorities, and the fees for applications, the processing of applications, renewals, authority variations and extensions, surveys, inspections by inspectors, technical and other assessments, exemptions, registrations in the greenhouse gas sequestration register, inspection of the greenhouse gas sequestration register and access to released information; and
(e) prescribing annual fees payable by the holders of authorities; and
(f) prescribing the rent that is payable by the holders of authorities for occupying Crown land; and
(g) requiring the holders of authorities to submit specified information to the Minister and to keep specified information, records and samples; and
(h) requiring information to be contained in work programs, development plans, unit developments, operation plans, injection testing plans, injection and monitoring plans, risk management plans, monitoring and verification plans, special access well plans, and other plans, manuals and reports required of authority holders; and
(i) requirements for pecuniary interests statements; and
(j) the greenhouse gas sequestration register and the documents to be registered; and
(k) regulating inquiries and investigations conducted into matters under this Act; and
(l) regulating unit agreements; and
(m) requirements for greenhouse gas infrastructure lines; and
(n) regulating injection testing under an authority; and
(o) regulating injection under an authority; and
(p) regulating monitoring and verification of a greenhouse gas substance; and
(q) prescribing the methods to be adopted if a well is abandoned; and
(r) regulating the injection testing of wells; and
(s) prescribing the equipment, materials and casings that are to be used in greenhouse gas sequestration operations; and
(t) regulating the underground geological storage of greenhouse gas substances; and
(u) 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 of specially limited application; and
(b) may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance; and
(c) may require a matter affected by the regulations to be—
(i) in accordance with a specified standard or specified requirement; or
(ii) approved by or to the satisfaction of a specified person or a specified class of person; or
(iii) as specified in both subparagraphs (i) and (ii); and
(d) may apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document whether—
(i) wholly or partially or as amended by the regulations; or
(ii) as in force at a particular time or as in force from time to time; and
(e) may confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on a specified person or a specified class of person; and
(f) may provide in a specified case or class of case for the exemption of people or things from any of the provisions of this Act, whether unconditionally or on specified conditions, and either wholly or to such an extent as is specified; and
(g) may impose a penalty not exceeding 20 penalty units for a contravention of the regulations; and
(h) may be expressed as requiring the achievement of a specified object in relation to any particular subject matter.
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