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ENERGY OPERATORS (POWERS) ACT 1979 - SECT 125

125 .         Regulations or by-laws, generally

        (1)         Regulations or by-laws made under this Act may be so made —

            (a)         as to apply —

                  (i)         generally, or in a specified class of case or in a specified case;

                  (ii)         at all times, or at specified times or at a specified time; and

                  (iii)         throughout the State, or in specified parts of the State or in a specified place;

            (b)         as to adopt, by reference to the text as from time to time amended and for the time being in force, unless a particular text is specified at the time of such adoption, —

                  (i)         such rules, regulations, codes, instructions or other subordinate legislation made, determined or issued under any other Act, or under any Act of the Parliament of the Commonwealth or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; or

                  (ii)         such standards, rules, codes or specifications issued by Standards Australia, the British Standards Institution, The Australian Gas Association, The Australian Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association, or other specified body,

                either wholly or in part or with modifications, as are specified;

            (c)         as to provide that where by reason of unavailability of materials or other reason that an energy operator considers valid any requirement imposed by the energy operator cannot be conformed to, the energy operator may dispense with that requirement and in lieu authorise in writing in any particular case the use of materials or any other matters which it considers to be appropriate;

            (d)         as to provide that, in a specified case or a specified class of case, whether on specified conditions or unconditionally, a person or thing or a class of persons or things, may be exempted from the provisions of those regulations or by-laws either wholly or to such extent as is specified; or

            (e)         as to require a matter affected by them to be in accordance with a specified standard, specification or requirement or to be as approved by, or to the satisfaction of, a specified person or body or a specified class of person or body, or so as to confer on a specified person or body or specified class of person or body a discretionary authority.

        (2)         In this section, specified means specified in the regulation or by-law in relation to which the term is used.

        [Section 125 amended by No. 89 of 1994 s. 39 and 41; No. 58 of 1999 s. 83(1) and (3); No. 74 of 2003 s. 51(3).]

[Schedule deleted by No. 60 of 1994 s. 13.]




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