Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) A person must not deposit or abandon industrial waste at a place or premises, unless the place or premises is authorised to receive industrial waste.
Note
See section 3(1) for the definition of authorised to receive industrial waste .
(2) A person must not deposit industrial waste at a place or premises that is authorised to receive industrial waste without obtaining the consent of—
(a) the holder of the permission authorising the place or premises to receive industrial waste; or
(b) the occupier or person in management or control of the place or premises.
Note
Section 314 provides that subsections (1) and (2) are civil penalty provisions. The penalties for contravention of these civil penalty provisions are set out in the table in section 314.
(3) A person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence.
Penalty: In the case of a natural person, 2000 penalty units;
In the case of a body corporate, 10 000 penalty units.
(4) An offence under subsection (3) is an indictable offence.
Note
This offence may be heard and determined summarily (see section 28 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 ).
S. 134 inserted by No. 39/2018 s. 7 (as amended by Nos 27/2019 ss 12− 30, 3/2020 ss 42– 44, 47/2020 s. 26).