An Act to amend the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 with respect to the contributions payable for liquid waste received at waste facilities.

1   Name of Act

This Act is the Protection of the Environment Operations Amendment (Waste) Act 2007.

2   Commencement

This Act commences on 1 August 2007.

3   Amendment of Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 No 156

The Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

4   Repeal of Act

(1)  This Act is repealed on the day following the day on which this Act commences.

(2)  The repeal of this Act does not, because of the operation of section 30 of the Interpretation Act 1987, affect any amendment made by this Act.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(Section 3)

[1]   Section 88 Contributions by licensee of waste facility

Omit section 88 (1). Insert instead:

  

(1)  This section applies to waste facilities that are required to be licensed under this Chapter, but it does not apply to a facility that the EPA determines is used solely for the purposes of re-using, recovering, recycling or processing waste other than liquid waste.

[2]   Section 88 (2)

Omit “any such waste facility”.

Insert instead “a waste facility to which this section applies”.

[3]   Section 88 (8)

Insert after section 88 (7):

  

(8)  In this section:

liquid waste means any waste other than:

(a)  non-liquid waste within the meaning of Schedule 1, or

(b)  a gas.

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Table of amending instruments

Protection of the Environment Operations Amendment (Waste) Act 2007 No 26. Assented to 4.7.2007. Date of commencement, 1.8.2007, sec 2.