Resource Sustainability Act 2019 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4A · Disposable Carrier Bag Charge
23B. Obligation to apply for registration
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A regulated retailer (X) who has an annual turnover for any trigger year that exceeds the prescribed annual turnover for the class of regulated retailers to which X belongs must, unless X is already a registered retailer for that class of regulated retailers, apply to the Agency before the applicable date in section 23C(1)(a) for that trigger year to be registered as a registered retailer for that class of regulated retailers.
retailer
“retailer” means a person who carries on a trade or business of supplying any regulated goods or regulated product to consumers;
A regulated retailer who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both.
In a prosecution for an offence under subsection (2), it is not necessary for the prosecution to prove that the defendant intended to commit the offence.
The offence under subsection (2) is a strict liability offence.
In this section and section 23C, a trigger year is —
2021 or a subsequent year; or
in the case of a regulated retailer who has been deregistered pursuant to an application under section 23D — any year from (and including) the year in which the regulated retailer is deregistered.