Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (Container Deposit Scheme) Amendment (Removable Ring-Pulls) Regulation 2019 (NSW)

New South Wales

Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery

(Container Deposit Scheme) Amendment

(Removable Ring-Pulls) Regulation 2019

under the

Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001

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

Regulation under the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001.

MATTHEW KEAN, MP

Minister for Energy and Environment

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to extend for a further 18 months (to 31 May 2021) an exemption from the prohibition on the supply and sale of metal containers with removable ring-pull opening mechanisms. The exemption is limited to container approvals in force immediately before 1 December 2019.

This Regulation is made under the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001, including sections
40(3) and 56 (the general regulation-making power) and clause 1 of Schedule 4.
Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (Container Deposit Scheme) Amendment (Removable

Ring-Pulls) Regulation 2019 [NSW]

Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (Container Deposit

Scheme) Amendment (Removable Ring-Pulls) Regulation 2019

under the

Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (Container Deposit

Scheme) Amendment (Removable Ring-Pulls) Regulation 2019.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3      Amendment of Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (Container Deposit

Scheme) Regulation 2017

Schedule 2 Savings and transitional provisions

Insert after clause 1A(1)—

(1A) The holder of a container approval that is in force immediately before 1 December 2019 does not commit an offence under section 40(8) of the Act for any contravention of the prescribed approval condition referred to in clause 23A(b) of this Regulation that occurs during the period commencing on 1 December 2019 and ending on 31 May 2021.