Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsThe Governor - General may make regulations prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act;
and, in particular:
(c) for and in relation to giving effect to the Convention, other than provisions of the Convention to which effect is given by a provision of this Act; and
(d) prescribing penalties not exceeding 30 penalty units for a contravention of the regulations.
Note: The regulations can prescribe penalties for contraventions of Marine Orders: see the definition of regulations in section 3.