Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) (Fees) Amendment Regulation 2016 (Cth)

Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) (Fees) Amendment Regulation 2016

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 05 May 2016

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for the Environment

Contents

1Name

This is the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) (Fees) Amendment Regulation 2016.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	1 July 2016.	1 July 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) (Fees) Regulations 1990

1

After regulation 1

Insert:

1AAuthority

These Regulations are made under the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989.

2

Regulation 2

Before “In these regulations”, insert:

Note: A number of expressions used in these Regulations are defined in the Act, including the following:

(a) Basel Convention;

(b) export permit;

(c) import permit;

(d) transit permit.

3

Regulation 2 (note)

Repeal the note.

4

Regulation 3

Repeal the regulation, substitute:

3Application fees

For section 32 of the Act, the prescribed fees for applications are specified in Schedule 1.

4Application—amendments made by the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) (Fees) Amendment Regulation 2016

The amendments made by the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) (Fees) Amendment Regulation 2016 apply in relation to an application for a permit, or for a variation of a permit, made on or after 1 July 2016.

5

Schedule

Repeal the Schedule, substitute:

Schedule 1—Application fees

Note: See regulation 3.

1Application fees

The prescribed fee for an application for a permit of a kind specified in an item in Column 1 of the following table is the fee set out in Column 2 of the table for the item.

Application fees
Item	Column 1 Application for grant or variation of permit	Column 2 Fee $
1	Transit permit—grant	2 484
2	Import permit—grant	3 726
3	Export permit—grant for operations which may lead to resource recovery, recycling, reclamation, direct re‑use or alternative uses (within the meaning of the Basel Convention)	7 451
4	Export permit—grant for operations other than those which may lead to resource recovery, recycling, reclamation, direct re‑use or alternative uses (within the meaning of the Basel Convention)	8 000
5	Transit permit—variation	497
6	Import permit—variation	745
7	Export permit—variation of export permit granted for operations which may lead to resource recovery, recycling, reclamation, direct re‑use or alternative uses (within the meaning of the Basel Convention)	2 980
8	Export permit—variation of export permit granted for operations other than those which may lead to resource recovery, recycling, reclamation, direct re‑use or alternative uses (within the meaning of the Basel Convention)	8 000