Protection of the Environment Operations (Waste) Amendment (Coal Washery Rejects Levy) Regulation 2014 (NSW)

New South Wales

Protection of the Environment Operations

(Waste) Amendment (Coal Washery Rejects

Levy) Regulation 2014

under the

Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997.

ROBYN PARKER, MP

Minister for the Environment

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to reduce, by 20 per cent, the rate of the levy payable by occupiers of licensed waste facilities used to dispose of coal washery rejects only, with effect on and from 1 March 2014. This Regulation is made under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997, including sections 88 and 323 (the general regulation-making power).

Protection of the Environment Operations (Waste) Amendment

(Coal Washery Rejects Levy) Regulation 2014

under the

Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Protection of the Environment Operations (Waste)
Amendment (Coal Washery Rejects Levy) Regulation 2014.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 March 2014 and is required to be published on the
NSW legislation website.

Schedule 1 Amendment of Protection of the Environment
Operations (Waste) Regulation 2005

[1]      Clause 5 Contributions payable in relation to scheduled waste facilities where adequate records kept

Omit clause 5 (4) (b). Insert instead:

(b)	for a year beginning on or after 1 July 2010 and ending on or before 30 June 2013, or beginning on or after 1 July 2014, the Special Levy amount for that year for each tonne of coal washery rejects received in that year, or
(c)	$16.60 for each tonne of coal washery rejects received in the period beginning on 1 July 2013 and ending on 28 February 2014, or
(d)	$13.30 for each tonne of coal washery rejects received in the period beginning on 1 March 2014 and ending on 30 June 2014.

[2]      Clause 5 (10) (b)

Omit the paragraph. Insert instead:

(b)	for a calculation made for a year beginning on or after 1 July 2011 and ending on or before 30 June 2013, or beginning on or after 1 July 2015—the Special Levy amount, in dollars and cents, for the year previous to the year for which the calculation is being made, or
(c)	for a calculation made for the year ending on 30 June 2015—$13.30.