Tasmanian Numbered Acts

WASTE AND RESOURCE RECOVERY ACT 2022 (NO. 6 OF 2022)

- Act 6 of 2022
- Royal Assent 29 March 2022

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Interpretation
   4.      Meaning of landfill facility
   5.      Meaning of resource recovery facility
   6.      Ministerial order
   7.      Application of Act
   8.      Delegation
   9.      Authorised officers

   PART 2 - Administration

           Division 1 - Tasmanian Waste and Resource Recovery Board

   10.     Establishment of Tasmanian Waste and Resource Recovery Board
   11.     Membership of Board
   12.     Functions of Board
   13.     Powers of Board
   14.     Ministerial direction

           Division 2 - Staff of Tasmanian Waste and Resource Recovery Board

   15.     Chief executive officer
   16.     Responsibilities of chief executive officer
   17.     Staff

           Division 3 - Planning and reporting by Board

   18.     Waste strategy
   19.     Preparation, approval and amendment of waste strategy
   20.     Operational plan
   21.     Preparation, approval and amendment of operational plan
   22.     Annual report
   23.     Minister may request information

           Division 4 - Finance

   24.     Waste and Resource Recovery Account
   25.     Accounts
   26.     Funds
   27.     Accounting records

   PART 3 - Waste Levy

   28.     Application of Part
   29.     Prescribed levy
   30.     Resource recovery rebate
   31.     Payable levy amount for landfill facility
   32.     Waste levy return and payments of payable levy amount
   33.     Payment of overdue levy
   34.     Evasion of levy

   PART 4 - Obligations and Offences

   35.     Landfill facility requirements
   36.     Volumetric survey
   37.     Records of landfill facility
   38.     Resource recovery facility requirements
   39.     Records of resource recovery facility
   40.     False or misleading information in general
   41.     Information provided to landfill operators and persons responsible

   PART 5 - Enforcement

           Division 1 - Powers and procedures

   42.     Audit
   43.     Powers of authorised officers
   44.     Suspension of operations

           Division 2 - Penalties and proceedings

   45.     Infringement notices
   46.     Recovery of debt in court
   47.     Limitation period for prosecution
   48.     Liability of multiple operators
   49.     Liability of body corporate
   50.     Presumption in relation to rebate entitlements
   51.     Evidence
   52.     Protection from liability

   PART 6 - Miscellaneous

   53.     Information sharing
   54.     Orders, notices, &c., not statutory rules
   55.     Regulations
   56.     Ministerial standards
   57.     Secretary may issue guidelines
   58.     Administration of Act
   59.     Consequential amendments
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3