Amendment of the Garbage Regulations (ACT)

Regulations 1976 No. 9

Regulation under the Building and Services Ordinance

1924-1976.*

I, ANTHONY ALLAN STALEY, the Minister of State for the Capital Territory, hereby make the following Regulation under the Building and Services Ordinance 1924-1976.

Dated this nineteenth day of May, 1976.

A. A . STALEY

Minister of State for the Capital Territory.

AMENDMENT OF THE GARBAGE REGULATIONS

Regulation 5 of the Garbage Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—

" 5 . (1) The occupier of premises shall not leave or deposit garbage upon or about the premises, or permit garbage to be left upon or about the premises, other than in a receptacle or in a container approved by the Minister or by an authorized officer.

" (2) A person who fails to comply with sub-regulation (1) is guilty of an offence and is punishable—

(a)	if an occupier of domestic premises, by a fine not less than $20 and not more than $50;
(b)	if an occupier of commercial premises, where the garbage contained putrescible matter directly or indirectly hazardous to human health, by a fine not less than $200 and not more than $500; or
(c)	in any other case, by a fine not less than $100 and not more than $300.".
Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 21 May 1976.

t For references to the original Regulations and amendments made before 1960, see footnote on p. 133 of Vol. I l l o f " Laws of the Australian Capital Territory 1911-1959 ". For later amendments, see Regulations 1974, N o . 33; and 1976, N o . 7.