Payment of refund amounts to material recovery facility operators
64L Payment of refund amounts to material recovery facility operators
The scheme coordinator agreement may require the scheme coordinator to pay a material recovery facility operator a refund amount (a processing refund) for containers collected by a waste collection service and processed by the operator for reuse or recycling.
The waste manager may determine a way (a processing refund protocol) to work out the processing refund payable to the material recovery facility operator.
A processing refund protocol may make provision for the following:
material recovery facility operators or classes of material recovery facility operators who are entitled to claim a processing refund;
the class of containers for which a processing refund is payable;
any other circumstances in which a processing refund is payable;
the way in which a claim for a processing refund must be made by a material recovery facility operator;
the assessment of claims for processing refunds;
reporting and keeping records;
a process for resolving disputes about processing refunds.
A processing refund protocol is a disallowable instrument.
A processing refund is not payable to a material recovery facility operator unless a processing refund protocol is in force in relation to the processing refund.
A regulation may prohibit—
the landfill disposal of a container in relation to which a claim for a processing refund has been made by a material recovery facility operator; and
a material recovery facility operator making a claim for a processing refund in relation to a container that has been disposed of to landfill.
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