Waste Management Act 1987 (SA)

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT, 1987

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Section

1.                    Short title

2.                    Commencement

3.                    Repeal

4.                    Interpretation

5.                    Act to bind Crown

PART II

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WASTE MANAGEMENT COMMISSION

6.                    The Commission

7.                    Objectives of the Commission

8.                    The Commission’s membership

9.                    Meetings and procedure

10.                    Disclosure of interest

11.                    Employees of the Commission

12.                    Delegation by Commission

13.                    Finance

14.                    Annual Report

PART III

WASTE MANAGEMENT

DIVISION I—WASTE MANAGEMENT PLANS

15.                    Waste management plans

DIVISION II—WASTE DEPOTS

16.                    Waste depots

17.                    Licence to operate waste depot

18.                    Notice to be displayed

19.                    Contributions by licensees

20.                    Operation of waste depots

DIVISION III—COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF WASTE

21.                    Collection and transportation of waste

DIVISION IV—PRODUCTION OF PRESCRIBED WASTE

22.                    Production of prescribed waste

DIVISION V—GENERAL LICENSING PROVISIONS

23.                    Commission to be satisfied of certain matters

24.                    Variation, etc., of licence conditions

25.                    Duration of licences

26.                    Business may be carried on by unlicensed person where licensee dies

27.                    Offence to contravene conditions

28.                    Licence, etc., to be produced on demand

29.                    Suspension or cancellation of licence

30.                    Return of licences suspended or cancelled

DIVISION VI—DEPOSITING WASTE

31.                    Offence

PART IV

ENFORCEMENT

32.                    Authorized officers

33.                    Powers of authorized officers

34.                    Directions to comply with Act or to make good non-compliance

PART V

MISCELLANEOUS

35.                    Exemptions

36.                    False or misleading information

37.                    Appeal

38.                    Operation of decision or direction may be suspended

39.                    Immunity from liability

40.                    Non-disclosure of information

41.                    Service

42.                    Summary offences

43.                    Expiation of prescribed offences

44.                    Vicarious liability

45.                    Evidence

46. Act not to derogate from Water Resources Act, 1976

47.                    Register

48.                    Regulations

SCHEDULE

WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT, 1987

being

Waste Management Act, 1987, No. 96 of 1987

[Assented to 17 December 1987]1

1 Came into operation 1 July 1988:Gaz. 30 June 1988, p. 2051.

An Act to provide for the management of waste and for the continuation of the South Australian Waste Management Commission; to repeal the South Australian Waste Management Commission Act, 1979; and for other purposes.

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Waste Management Act, 1987.

Commencement

2. (1) This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

(2) The Governor may, in a proclamation fixing a day for this Act to come into operation, suspend the operation of specified provisions of this Act until a subsequent day fixed in the proclamation, or a day to be fixed by subsequent proclamation.

Repeal 3. The South Australian Waste Management Commission Act, 1979, is repealed.

Interpretation

4. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—

"the Commission" means the South Australian Waste Management Commission:

"council" means a municipal or district council:

"waste" means any matter (whether of value or not) discarded or left over in the course of industrial, commercial, domestic or other activities and includes any matter declared by regulation to be waste, but…