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National Environment Protection (Movement of Controlled Waste between States and Territories) Measure 1998

made under subsection 14(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)

This compilation was prepared on 1 December 2012
taking into account amendments up to and including the National Environment Protection (Movement of Controlled Waste between States and Territories) Measure Minor Variation 2012 (No. 1)

Prepared by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel and the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Canberra

Contents

Introductory Note

Part  Preliminary

 1 Title [see Note 1]
 2 Commencement [see Note 1]
 3 Definitions
 4 Head of power for making this Measure
 5 Scope
 6. Schedule A to the Measure
 7. Schedule B to the Measure
 8. Exclusions to the Measure
 9. Exemptions allowed by the Measure
 10 Review of Measure

Part 2 National environment protection goal

 11 Goal for this Measure
 12 Environmental outcomes for this Measure

Part 3 National environment protection guidelines

 13 Features for the establishment of a system for the movement of controlled wastes
 14. Failure to provide information, or giving false or misleading information
 15. Confidentiality

Schedule A List 1: Waste categories

Schedule A List 2: Characteristics of controlled wastes

Schedule B

Notes

Introductory Note
Section 14 of the National Environment Protection Council Act 1994 and the equivalent provision of the corresponding Act of each participating State and Territory provides for the making of Measures by the NEPC and the matters to which they may relate.  This Measure relates to the matters set out in paragraphs 14(1)(a), (b), (e), and (f).

The Measure 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.

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Title [see Note 1]

  This Measure is the National Environment Protection (Movement of Controlled Waste between States and Territories) Measure 1998.

2 Commencement [see Note 1]

 This Measure commences on the date of gazettal of this Measure.

3 Definitions

 In this Measure, unless the contrary intention appears:
Agency means a body or bodies of a participating State or a participating Territory which that State or Territory has nominated for the purposes of this Measure.

Agreement means the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Environment