Environment Protection Regulations 2021

A person may apply to the Authority for approval of an electronic system for recording or providing transaction details for the purposes of section 142(1) of the Act.

An application must be made in the manner and form approved by the Authority.

The Authority must not approve an electronic system unless it is satisfied that the system—

enables transaction details to be recorded and provided in accordance with regulations 74 to 81; and

is a reliable, effective and timely means of recording and providing transaction details; and

enables transaction details to be recorded and provided securely; and

enables the Authority to efficiently access, record and otherwise deal with the transaction details; and

will retain transaction details for at least 2 years from the date on which the reportable priority waste is transported; and

includes a system for assigning a unique identifier (consisting of numbers, letters or both) to each consignment of reportable priority waste for which the system is used and the system can link that identifier to any unique identifier assigned under any other system used for that consignment.

The Authority must decide, no later than 42 business days after receiving an application that complies with subregulation (2)—

to approve a system; or

to refuse to approve a system.

The Authority may require the applicant to provide the Authority with information relating to the application that the Authority considers necessary.

The time in which the Authority must make a decision on the application referred to in subregulation (4) does not include—

if the Authority requires the applicant to provide information under subregulation (5), the period from the date the Authority makes the request until the date on which the Authority receives the information; or

any other period that the Authority and the applicant agree is not to be included in that time.