Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) In this Act unless
the contrary intention appears —
approved product stewardship plan means a product
stewardship plan registered under section 45(3);
business plan means a business plan approved under
section 39;
CEO means chief executive officer of the
department of the Public Service principally assisting in the administration
of this Act;
Chief Health Officer has the meaning given in the
Public Health Act 2016 section 4(1);
district means an area that has been declared to
be a district under the Local Government Act 1995 , and any place outside the
boundaries of the district which is under the control of the local government
for the district;
entity means any person or body, including a
public authority;
EP Act means the Environmental Protection Act
1986 ;
EP authorisation means a licence, permit or
approval granted under the EP Act;
extended producer responsibility scheme means a
scheme for giving effect to a policy in which the producer’s
responsibility for a product (including physical or financial responsibility)
is extended to the post-consumer stage of the product’s life-cycle;
inspector means an inspector appointed under the
EP Act section 88 for the purposes of this Act and includes the CEO;
levy means a levy imposed under the
Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Levy Act 2007 ;
local government includes a regional local
government established for the purpose of providing waste services;
local government waste means —
(a)
waste from residential sources; and
(b) any
other waste of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this
paragraph,
but does not include sewage or waste of a kind
prescribed by the regulations as excluded for the purposes of this definition;
member means a member of the Waste Authority
appointed under section 11(1);
producer of a product includes a manufacturer,
importer, supplier or distributor, of the product in this State or an entity
having a proprietary interest in the name under which the product is
manufactured, imported, supplied or distributed in this State;
product stewardship plan means a plan in which the
producers of a product —
(a)
share responsibility with governments and consumers for the environmental
impact of the product throughout its use, including end of use management; and
(b) seek
to reduce the adverse environmental impact of the product;
public authority means —
(a) an
agency or organisation as those terms are defined in the Public Sector
Management Act 1994 ; or
(b) a
body, corporate or unincorporate, that is established or continued for a
public purpose by the State, regardless of the way it is established; or
(c) a
local government;
WARR Account means the Waste Avoidance and
Resource Recovery Account established by section 79;
waste includes matter —
(a)
whether liquid, solid, gaseous or radioactive and whether useful or useless,
which is discharged into the environment; or
(b)
prescribed by the regulations to be waste;
Waste Authority means the Waste Authority
established by section 8;
waste collection permit has the meaning given by
section 56(1);
waste facility means premises used for the
storage, treatment, processing, sorting, recycling or disposal of waste;
waste service means —
(a) the
collection, transport, storage, treatment, processing, sorting, recycling or
disposal of waste; or
(b) the
provision of receptacles for the temporary deposit of waste; or
(c) the
provision and management of waste facilities, machinery for the disposal of
waste and processes for dealing with waste;
waste strategy means the waste strategy approved
and in force under Part 4 Division 1.
(2) If a term has a
meaning in the EP Act, it has the same meaning in this Act unless the contrary
intention appears in this Act.
[Section 3 amended: No. 19 of 2016 s. 200.]