[s. 96]
1. Providing for the form and content of any
notice.
2. Providing for the keeping, inspection and
production of reports, records, returns, registers and other information.
2A. Without limiting item 1 or 2, providing for
notices, directions or other documents to be given, sent or served under this
Act by electronic communication (as defined in the
Electronic Transactions Act 2011 section 5(1)) and providing for the proof of
that giving, sending or service.
3. Providing for the imposition of fees and
charges.
4. Providing for the recovery of expenses incurred
by the CEO or a local government.
5. Prescribing offences under the regulations and
penalties for the commission of those offences not exceeding $10 000, with or
without a daily penalty of not more than $1 000.
6. Providing for review by the State
Administrative Tribunal of decisions made under the regulations.
[Division 1 amended: No. 34 of 2020 s. 76.]
Division 2 — Waste collection and facilities
7. Regulating the operation of waste facilities,
and the treatment, storage, processing, recycling or disposal of waste at
waste facilities.
8. Regulating the use of receptacles for waste.
9. Regulating waste services.
10. Regulating the transportation of waste.
11. Regulating the creation, collection, storage,
handling, processing, recycling and disposal of waste.
12. Providing for waste collection permits.
13. Regulating the issue by local governments of
approvals to collect local government waste.
14. Providing for the provision of information
relating to the operation of waste facilities and the transportation of waste.
15. Prohibiting the disposal to landfill or other
waste facilities of specified waste or classes of waste (including any
products that are or have been included in an extended producer responsibility
scheme).
Division 3 — Product stewardship
16. Making provision in relation to assisting in
the negotiation of, and assessing the implementation and operation of, product
stewardship plans.
17. Regulating the implementation, operation and
enforcement of extended producer responsibility schemes.
18. Without limiting the Interpretation Act 1984
section 43(8)(d), exempting persons or products, or classes of person or
product, from all or any of the provisions of the regulations applying to
extended producer responsibility schemes, and specifying circumstances in
which and conditions subject to which an exemption applies.
19. Without limiting item 17, requiring a person
who manufactures, distributes or sells a product to do all or any of the
following —
(a)
provide consumer information on the use and disposal of the product and its
by-products;
(b)
operate collection facilities for the product and its by-products;
(c)
collect or accept the product and its by-products for disposal from a consumer
of the product;
(d)
dispose of the product in accordance with the regulations.
20. Without limiting item 17, prescribing products
for which a fee, deposit or bond for the collection, recycling or disposal of
the product must be paid and —
(a)
regulating the collection of the fee, deposit or bond; and
(b)
regulating the circumstances in which the fee, deposit or bond and a refund of
the fee, deposit or bond will apply; and
(c)
providing for the amount of the fee, deposit or bond or refund; and
(d)
providing for the time at which the fee, deposit, bond or refund must be paid.
21. Concerning the control and management of fees,
deposits or bonds paid under the regulations including —
(a)
requiring the person who collects the fee, deposit or bond to forward the fee,
deposit or bond to a person specified in the regulations; and
(b)
making provision as to who is empowered to hold the fee, deposit or bond and
where the fee, deposit or bond must be held; and
(c)
providing for the application of the fee, deposit or bond and interest from
the fee, deposit or bond.
22. Providing for the establishment of, and
regulating the operation of, collection facilities for products and their
by-products.
23. Requiring a producer of a product to formulate
and implement a management plan with respect to the product, specifying the
matters to be dealt with in the management plan, providing for approval of the
management plan and requiring compliance with the management plan.
24. Providing for proof of payment of fees,
deposits or bonds under the regulations and its evidential status.