Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020

The rules may prohibit the export of regulated waste material unless conditions prescribed by the rules are complied with.

Failure to comply with prescribed export conditions, which must be met before the regulated waste material is exported, is an offence and a civil penalty provision (see section 20).

Without limiting subsection (1), the rules may prescribe conditions in relation to the export of regulated waste material that:

require the waste material to be exported:

in accordance with an export licence; or

in any other way prescribed by the rules; or

require export operations to be carried out in relation to the waste material:

in accordance with an export licence; or

in any other way prescribed by the rules; or

require the exporter to give an export declaration to the Minister or CEO before the waste material is exported; or

require the exporter to hold either or both of the following:

an export licence covering the waste material;

another kind of permission, consent or approval, granted as prescribed by the rules, to export the waste material.

Without limiting paragraph (2)(c), the rules may require the export declaration to be given within a specified period or before a specified event occurs.