Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011

The operator of a container refund point must not claim payment of an amount from the Organisation under a container collection agreement if the payment relates to a container and any of the following apply—

the operator has not paid a refund amount for the container;

the container is not registered;

the operator knows, or ought reasonably to know, the container has been disposed of to landfill, whether or not the operator has paid a refund amount for the container.

Subsection (1)(c) does not apply to a container that is the subject of an extraordinary circumstances exemption.