Section 78

the registration requirements in relation to —

regulated goods;

suppliers of regulated goods; and

registrable corporations;

the form of any application, report, plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part 4);

the preparation of any application, report, plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part 4), including the person that should prepare the same and any criteria that the person must satisfy;

the information and documents to be included in or to accompany any application, report, plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part 4);

without affecting paragraph (d), in relation to any report or plan mentioned in this Act (except Part 4), the methods, or criteria for the methods, by which the amounts of reductions, removals, offsets, energy production, energy consumption or any other matters are to be measured or determined, including any one or more of the following:

conditions relating to the use of different methods or criteria;

rating systems for those methods;

the particular rating given to each of those methods;

the period within which any application, report, plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part 4) is to be submitted (including at prescribed intervals);

the manner in which any application, report, plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part 4) is to be submitted, including the person that should submit the same and any criteria that the person must satisfy;

the implementation of energy efficiency measures proposed in any energy efficiency improvement plan under section 28;

the criteria which any person carrying out any assessment required under this Act (except Part 4) must satisfy;

in relation to an energy manager under Part 3 —

the appointment, training and qualification of an energy manager;

the functions and duties of an energy manager; and

the powers of an energy manager, being necessary powers for the discharge of the energy manager’s functions and duties;

any fees and charges payable for an application under, or for any purpose of, this Act (except Part 4);

any other matter that is required or permitted to be prescribed to give effect to this Act (except Part 4).

for different classes, descriptions or types of goods, persons or industry sectors; and

for different circumstances (including, in relation to subsection (2)(e), the circumstances in which the reductions, removals, offsets, energy production, energy consumption or other matters occur).

in determining, in a particular case or category of cases, whether the Director-General (or an authorised officer) should exercise his or her powers or whether a sector regulator (or a transport sector authorised officer) should exercise his, her or its powers; and

where the Director-General and a sector regulator, or their respective authorised officers or transport sector authorised officers, may exercise their respective powers concurrently or conjunctively.