53 The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations, (a) prescribing, specifying or designating anything that is described as prescribed, specified or designated in the regulations or described as prepared or done in accordance with the regulations, except for matters that are described as prescribed by the Minister; (b) exempting persons or classes of persons from the requirement to have a licence in the circumstances, if any, specified in the regulations and specifying conditions that attach to the exemptions; (c) authorizing directors to appoint other officials to assist the director in exercising powers or carrying out duties under this Act and specifying the powers and duties of those officials; (d) continuing, with the modifications specified in the regulations, as a licence or certificate under this Act, a licence or certificate issued under any Act that authorizes a person to carry on a regulatable activity; (e) specifying criteria that an applicant is required to meet in order to be eligible for the issuance or renewal of a licence; (f) specifying conditions that a director may impose on a licence; (g) governing the procedure for persons to follow, in addition to the requirements of this Act, with respect to the issuance or renewal of a licence, the refusal to issue or renew a licence, the suspension or revocation of a licence or the conduct of a hearing under this Act; (h) requiring applicants for a licence or licensees to post a performance bond or whatever other form of financial security the director requires as a condition for obtaining and holding a licence and governing the rights and obligations of the parties to that financial security; (i) specifying powers and duties of directors and inspectors, in addition to those specified in this Act; (j) governing the procedure for the following persons to follow, in addition to the requirements of this Act, with respect to exercising their powers under this Act: (i) officials appointed by a regulation made under clause (c), (ii) persons, organizations and facilities designated or approved by a regulation made under clause 12 (z.1), (iii) inspectors, (iv) persons assisting inspectors in exercising powers under any of sections 15 to 25 and 36 and persons designated by a regulation made under clause (k); (k) designating persons who are not inspectors and who are to have those powers of an inspector that are specified in the regulations; (l) prohibiting persons from interfering in any way specified in the regulations with, (i) any other person who is exercising powers or carrying out duties under this Act, or (ii) any activity that is being carried out in accordance with this Act or the regulations or any thing used in or related to that activity; (m) establishing a separate account in the Consolidated Revenue Fund, requiring the payment of administrative penalties under section 41 into that fund and governing the use of that fund for the payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Minister in connection with the administration and enforcement of this Act; (n) establishing a separate account in the Consolidated Revenue Fund, requiring the payment of the fees described in section 52 into that fund and governing the use of that fund for the payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred by the Minister in connection with the administration and enforcement of this Act; (o) specifying the manner of serving any thing that this Act requires to be served on any person and specifying the time at which the service shall be deemed to have been made; (p) defining, for the purposes of this Act and the regulations, any word or expression used in this Act that has not already been expressly defined in this Act; (q) exempting persons, activities, matters, things or any class of them from any provision of this Act or the regulations in the circumstances, if any, specified in the regulations and specifying conditions that attach to the exemptions.  2001, c. 20, s. 53.