28.1  Power to make ministerial regulations

(1) The minister may make regulations

(a) prescribing vehicles and classes or categories of vehicles as classified vehicles, which classes may be based on ownership, place or jurisdiction of registration or licensing, nature, type, character, size, weight, number of or weight on axles or wheels, equipment or accessories of the vehicles,

(b) regulating, restricting or prohibiting the operation, parking or standing of classified vehicles in respect of which a toll debt has been incurred or a toll has been charged,

(c) respecting the method or manner in which tolls and related fees, interest and other charges may be imposed in respect of classified vehicles and the method or manner in which toll debts that have been incurred or tolls and related fees, interest and other charges that are imposed in respect of a classified vehicle may be collected from the owner or operator of the classified vehicle,

(d) providing for the duties of inspectors respecting the method or manner of regulating or prohibiting the operation, parking or standing of classified vehicles or the collection of toll debts or tolls or related fees, interest or other charges that are imposed in respect of classified vehicles,

(e) providing for the nature, content and form of the information or documentation, whether in electronic, digital, paper or other format, that is evidence of a toll debt having been incurred or a toll and related fees, interest or other charges having been imposed in respect of a classified vehicle,

(f) respecting the nature, content and form of information or documentation that inspectors or peace officers may request from the owner or operator of a classified vehicle and that on request the owner or operator is required to provide to an inspector or a peace officer for the purposes set out in section 25,

(g) providing that the contravention of a regulation made under paragraphs (a) to (f) constitutes an offence,

(h) providing that a person who commits an offence under paragraphs (a) to (f) is liable to a penalty not greater than the penalties provided under the Offence Act, and

(i) authorizing or empowering persons or a class of persons to exercise the powers and perform the duties of an inspector.

(2) Without restricting subsection (1), a regulation under that subsection may

(a) provide differently for different cases or classes of cases, or different persons or vehicles or classes of persons or vehicles,

(b) exempt from its application, in whole or in part or otherwise in accordance with its terms, persons or vehicles or classes of persons or vehicles,

(c) provide differently in relation to periods of time, hours of the day, days of the week, specified dates and any other criteria the minister considers necessary or advisable,

(d) delegate a matter to a person or to a class of persons, and

(e) confer a discretion on a person or on a class of persons.