Resource Sustainability Act 2019 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Producer Responsibility Schemes
28. Licence required to operate producer responsibility scheme
Feedback & supportA person must not operate, or advertise or otherwise hold out that the person is operating, a producer responsibility scheme unless the person is authorised to do so by a licence under this Part.
producer responsibility scheme
“producer responsibility scheme” means a scheme in which —(a)the operator of the scheme collects, or organises the collection of, any specified waste from the public and causes such waste collected to be treated and recycled; and(b)members of the scheme finance the costs of operating the scheme, including the costs of the collection, treatment and recycling of the waste collected;
A person 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.