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this clause, "material" means the principal component or components of the container and does not include incidental components such as labels and closures.

17 Collection and Participation Data

 (1) Participating jurisdictions shall require each local government of a municipal district (or each grouping of local governments of municipal districts where waste management groups exist) in which a kerbside recycling collection service or other municipal materials recovery system is provided, to provide the following information in relation to the municipal district or group of municipal districts, for a financial year:
 (a) what percentage of households is covered by any such service;
 (b) participation rate in any such service;
 (c) number of tenements covered by the service and whether the tenements are residential tenements or other kinds of tenement;
 (d) per tenement fee charged for recycling collection services;
 (e) total weight of recyclable material collected at kerbside or by other municipal materials recovery systems by material type;
 (f) if the material collected is sorted:
 (i) the total weight of each material type sold and/or sent for secondary use, including energy recovery; and
 (ii) the total weight of the residual fraction disposed of to landfill by material type if practicable.

 (2) Participating jurisdictions shall require each local government or grouping of local governments to ensure that any new or novated contract with a recycling collection service requires such contractors to provide any information to the local government that the local government needs to supply the information mentioned in subclause (1).

 (3) Where a local government is subject to current contract conditions which prevent it complying with subclause (1) above, the participating jurisdiction within which the local government's municipal district lies shall take any regulatory steps that are necessary to ensure that kerbside recycling collection services supply the information mentioned in that subclause to the nominated agency of the participating jurisdiction.

 (4) Participating jurisdictions shall maintain the confidentiality of any commercially sensitive information provided under this clause unless:
 (a) the parties identified in subclauses 17 (1) and 17 (3) consent to the release of the information; or
 (b) the participating jurisdiction is legally compelled to release it; or
 (c) the information is aggregated with other information so as to conceal its source; or
 (d) it is in the public interest to release it.

 (5) Participating jurisdictions shall require each local government, or grouping of local governments, to report the information mentioned in subclause (1) for a financial year:
 (a) to the nominated agency of the participating jurisdiction within which the municipal district or group of municipal districts lies; and
 (b) within a timeframe agreed by jurisdictions in consultation with local government after the end of the financial year to which the information relates.

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