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Fisheries Act 1996

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296ZI: Regulations

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"Rules made by the Governor-General to enforce the law"

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The Governor-General can make regulations about things like what happens when an organisation does not comply with certain standards or directions under section 296Q. You need to know that these regulations can say what failures will get demerit points and how many points each failure will get. The regulations can also say how much an organisation has to pay if it gets a certain number of demerit points. The regulations can have different levels of demerit points and penalties. The total amount of penalties an organisation can get in a year cannot be more than $500,000. You can find out more about how these regulations are published by looking at Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Information disclosure requirements

296ZIRegulations

  1. The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

  2. specifying those failures to comply with specified standards or specifications, or directions under section 296Q, in respect of which the Minister may record demerit points against an approved service delivery organisation:
    1. prescribing the number of demerit points to be recorded in respect of specified failures:
      1. prescribing the amount of civil penalties payable in respect of different amounts or levels of demerit points incurred by an approved service delivery organisation in any financial year.

        1. Without limiting subsection (1), regulations made under this section may provide for graduated scales of demerit points and civil penalties.

        2. The total amount of civil penalties that may be incurred by an organisation in any financial year, as prescribed by regulations made under this section, may not exceed $500,000.

        3. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

        Notes
        • Section 296ZI: inserted, on , by section 65 of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).
        • Section 296ZI(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).