Section 12
Regulations
The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may make regulations generally for the purposes of carrying into effect this Act, and in particular the regulations may provide for—
(i)
the form and contents of the model petroleum agreement;
(ii)
the appointment, duties, privileges and powers of officers to enforce this Act including an exploration licence and any petroleum agreement issued or entered into thereunder;
(iii)
the fees to be paid in respect of anything to be done under this Act including the issue of an exploration licence and the entering into of a petroleum agreement;
(iv)
the prevention of fires in areas where oil mining is carried on;
(v)
the establishment of safety areas around any petroleum reserve installations erected on the sea bed:
Provided that no safety area around petroleum mining installations erected on off-shore land beyond territorial waters shall be required to exceed five hundred metres in radius;
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(vi)
the general safety, health, working conditions and welfare of persons engaged in oil mining whether on-shore or off-shore; and
(vii)
the amendment of the First Schedule.
(2)
Regulations made under paragraph (1)(i) to (iii), so far as they relate to the States, shall not take effect in any State until the same shall have been concurred to by the State Authority concerned;
and any regulations made under paragraph (1)(vi) may provide that the regulations shall be in addition to or in substitution for the written law relating to labour and any regulations made thereunder relating to the matters specified in that paragraph.