Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Governor - General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, the Convention or conservation measures and, in particular:
(a) providing for functions and powers to be conferred, and duties to be imposed, upon inspectors; and
(b) providing, in respect of an offence against a provision of the regulations, for the imposition of:
(i) if the offender is a natural person--a fine not exceeding 20 penalty units or 2 penalty units for each day during which the offence continues; or
(ii) if the offender is a body corporate--a fine not exceeding 50 penalty units or 5 penalty units for each day during which the offence continues.
(2) The power to make regulations conferred by this Act may be exercised:
(a) in relation to all cases to which the power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to specified exceptions, or in relation to any specified cases or classes of case; and
(b) so as to make, as respects the cases in relation to which it is exercised, the same provision for all those cases or different provision for different cases or classes of case.
(3) The power to make regulations conferred by this Act shall not be taken, by implication, to exclude the power to make provision for or in relation to a matter by reason only of the fact that:
(a) provision is made by this Act in relation to that matter or another matter; or
(b) power is expressly conferred by this Act to make provision by regulation for or in relation to another matter.
(4) The limitation imposed by paragraph (1)(b) on the penalties that may be prescribed by the regulations does not prevent the regulations from requiring a person to make a statutory declaration.