Western Australian Current Regulations

LITTER REGULATIONS 1981 - REG 6

6 .         Domestic or commercial waste not to be deposited in litter receptacle

        (1)         Except with the consent of a public authority a person shall not deposit any domestic or commercial waste in a public litter receptacle.

        Penalty: a fine of $5 000.

        (2)         In this regulation — 

        commercial waste means waste material of any kind generated by shops, offices, industrial premises, hotels, restaurants and hospitals;

        domestic waste means waste material of any kind generated by private dwellings and includes garbage, lawn clippings and old furnishings.

        [Regulation 6 amended: Gazette 11 Jan 2013 p. 44.]

[ 7.         Deleted: Gazette 19 Jul 1996 p. 3460.]