Recycling and Waste Reduction (Mandatory Product Stewardship—Mercury-added Products) Rules 2021 (Cth)

Recycling and Waste Reduction (Mandatory Product Stewardship—Mercury‑added Products) Rules 2021 I, Sussan Ley, Minister for the Environment, make the following rules.

Dated 23 September 2021

Sussan Ley Minister for the Environment

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions Part 2—Prohibition on manufacture, import and export of mercury‑added products and incorporation of mercury‑added products 5 Constitutional connection 6 Absolute prohibition on manufacture, import and export of mercury‑added products 7 Absolute prohibition on incorporation of mercury‑added products into assembled products

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name This instrument is the Recycling and Waste Reduction (Mandatory Product Stewardship—Mercury‑added Products) Rules 2021.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument The later of: 7 March 2022 (a) the day after this instrument is registered; and (F2022N00032) (b) the day the Minamata Convention on Mercury, done at Minamata on 10 October 2013, comes into force for Australia. (paragraph (b) applies) However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur. The Minister must announce, by notifiable instrument, the day the Convention comes into force for Australia.