(1) The Minister may, having regard to sections 9 and 48 and the matters specified in section 49, make regulations providing for each class of employment permit specified in paragraphs (a) to (j) of section 9(2) and may, for each such class of employment permit, provide for one or more of the matters specified in subsection (2) and may, in such regulations, make different provision for such classes of employment permit and such matters in relation to different cases and different classes of cases and different circumstances or different classes of circumstances.

(2) The matters referred to in subsection (1) are as follows:

(a) the maximum number of employment permits that may be granted in respect of a particular class of employment permit or specified employments or categories of such employments and such employments or such categories may be provided for on the basis of one or more economic sectors into which they fall;

(b) the employments for which an employment permit may be granted and such employments may be provided for by reference to categories of employments for which an employment permit may be granted and by reference to one or more economic sectors into which they fall;