Waste Reduction and Recycling (Waste Levy) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 (Qld)

An Act to amend the Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011 for particular purposes The Parliament of Queensland enacts—

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Waste Reduction and Recycling (Waste Levy) Amendment Act 2019.

2 Commencement (1) The following provisions commence on 1 June 2019— • section 3 • section 19, to the extent it inserts new chapter 16, part 3 heading and sections 323 and 324. (2) Part 2, other than the provisions commenced under subsection (1), commences on 1 July 2019.

Part 2 Amendment of Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011

3 Act amended This part amends the Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011.

4 Amendment of s 5 (Approach to achieving Act's objects) (1) Section 5— insert— (ba) price signalling, including through the introduction of a levy on waste delivered to a levyable waste disposal site; (2) Section 5(l), 'paragraphs (a) to (k)'— omit, insert— paragraphs (a) to (l) (3) Section 5(ba) to (l)— renumber as paragraphs (c) to (m).

5 Amendment of s 8A (Meaning of waste disposal site ) (1) Section 8A(b), 'commonly'— omit, insert— sometimes (2) Section 8A— insert— (2) However, a waste facility is not a waste disposal site only because a type of exempt waste prescribed by regulation for this definition is disposed of to landfill at the facility.

6 Replacement of ch 3 (Obligations of operator of waste disposal site) Chapter 3— omit, insert—

Chapter 3 Waste levy

Part 1 Preliminary

25 Main purpose The main purpose of this chapter is to impose a levy on waste delivered to a levyable waste disposal site, and to allow for an exemption from the levy, or a discounted levy rate, for particular waste.