Commencement Proclamation (2014-665) (NSW)

New South Wales

Commencement Proclamation

under the

Protection of the Environment Operations Amendment (Illegal Waste

Disposal) Act 2013 No 60

DAVID HURLEY, Governor

I, General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC, Governor of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Protection of the Environment Operations Amendment (Illegal Waste Disposal) Act 2013, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 1 August 2015 as the day on which Schedule 1 [1] to that Act commences.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 15th day of October 2014.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT STOKES, MP
Minister for the Environment

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence Schedule 1 [1] to the Protection of the Environment Operations Amendment (Illegal Waste Disposal) Act 2013, which is the remaining uncommenced provision of that Act. Schedule 1 [1] amends section 88 of the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 to remove the exemption from payment of the waste contribution by licensees of waste facilities used for the re-using, recovering, recycling or processing of waste other than liquid waste. The Protection of the Environment Operations (Waste) Amendment (Contributions) Regulation 2014 contains amendments to the Protection of the Environment Operations (Waste) Regulation 2014 that are related to the commencement of Schedule 1 [1].