New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
(1) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:
(a) Prescribing or making provision for forms of applications, permits, notices, and other documents for the purposes of this Part, and prescribing the manner in which any such forms are to be executed:
(b) Prescribing the information to be provided with applications for permits:
(c) Prescribing conditions on which permits may be applied for, granted, changed, or extended:
(d) Prescribing the manner in which permits may be surrendered:
(e) Prescribing the manner in which persons wishing to apply for permits in respect of any land are to mark out or identify the land and prescribing a graticular system for the purpose of defining areas or parts of areas comprised in permits, applications for permits, or extensions of permits:
(f) Prescribing registers to be kept under this Part, the form of such registers, the matters to be entered therein, and the means by which entries shall be verified:
(g) Providing for the keeping and provision of records, reports, information, and returns by permit holders for any purpose under this Part, and prescribing the nature of the records, reports, information, and returns, and the form, manner, and times in or at which they shall be kept or provided:
(ga) prescribing the information that must be provided under section 90A and the form, manner, and times in or at which that information must be provided:
(gb) prescribing the form, manner, and times in or at which the Secretary may publish any or all of the information that must be provided under section 90A:
(h) Providing for the keeping by a holder of a permit of cores, specimens, or samples obtained in the course of activities carried out under the permit and for the examination, taking, and retention of such cores, specimens, or samples by authorised persons:
(i) Prescribing matters in respect of which fees are to be payable under this Act, the amount of the fees, the time and manner of their payment, and the persons liable to pay them, and providing for charges for late payment of fees:
(j) Authorising the refund or remission of any fees payable under this Act:
(k) Prescribing the amount of monetary deposits or bonds required with applications for permits:
(l) Prescribing the duties of permit holders and the activities to be carried out under permits:
(m) Prohibiting or regulating activities under a permit near the boundaries of the land comprised in the permit and on or near land comprised in other permits:
(n) For the purposes of the definition of minimum impact activity, prescribing impacts as prohibited impacts and land as prohibited land:
(o) Generally regulating activities carried out under permits:
(p) Providing for the exemption of permit holders, either wholly or partially, and either absolutely or conditionally, from any of the conditions of their permits or from the provisions of any regulations for the time being in force under this Part:
(q) The prevention of the waste or loss of petroleum:
(r) Providing for such matters as are contemplated by or necessary for giving full effect to this Part and for its due administration.
(2) Any regulations made under this section may provide for different regulations to apply in respect of different classes of permits, permit holders, or activities or in respect of the same class of permits, permit holders, or activities, in different circumstances.
(3) Any regulations made under this section may apply generally throughout New Zealand or within any specified part or parts thereof. All regulations made under this section shall, unless otherwise specified in the regulations, apply generally throughout New Zealand and the continental shelf.
Subsection (1)(ga) and (1)(gb) was inserted, as from 18 October 2004, by section 5 Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 84).