Variation to the National Environment Protection (Used Packaging Materials) Measure (July 2004) (Cth)

Variation to the National Environment Protection (Used Packaging Materials) Measure

made under subsection 22A(1) of the

National Environment Protection Council Act 1994 (Cwlth), National Environment Protection Council (New South Wales) Act 1995 (NSW), National Environment Protection Council (Victoria) Act 1995 (Vic), National Environment Protection Council (Queensland) Act 1994 (Qld), National Environment Protection Council (Western Australia) Act 1996 (WA), National Environment Protection Council (South Australia) Act 1995 (SA), National Environment Protection Council (Tasmania) Act 1995 (Tas), National Environment Protection Council Act 1994 (ACT), and the National Environment Protection Council (Northern Territory) Act 1994 (NT)

Introductory Note

Section 20 of the National Environment Protection Council Act 1994 and the equivalent provision of the corresponding Act of each participating State and Territory enables the National Environment Protection Council to vary a National Environment Protection Measure.  This is a variation to the National Environment Protection (Used Packaging Materials) Measure made by the National Environment Protection Council on 2 July 1999.

The Variation is to be implemented by the laws and other arrangements participating jurisdictions consider necessary (see Section 7 of the Commonwealth Act and the equivalent provision of the corresponding Act of each participating State and Territory).

1. Citation

This Variation may be cited as the Minor Variation to the National Environment Protection (Used Packaging Materials) Measure.

Note:  This Minor Variation commences on gazettal (see National Environment Protection Council Act 1994, s 21 and Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s 48 as applied by s 46A).

1. Purpose

The purpose of this Minor Variation is to vary the National Environment Protection (Used Packaging Materials) Measure (the Principal Measure) to extend the life of the NEPM as the regulatory safety net underpinning the National Packaging Covenant for twelve months to 14 July 2005.

1. Minor Variation to the Principal Measure

In Clause 2 of the Principal Measure for the existing clause substitute:  ‘six years after the date of commencement’.