Resource Sustainability Act 2019 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Producer Responsibility Schemes
29. Producer responsibility scheme licence
Feedback & supportAn application for a licence to operate a producer responsibility scheme must be made to the Agency in the form and manner the Agency requires.
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;
After considering an application for the grant of a licence, the Agency may —
Agency
“Agency” means the National Environment Agency established under the National Environment Agency Act 2002;
grant the licence for such duration as the Agency may specify in the licence; or
refuse the application.
The Minister may from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, prescribe a limit on the number of licences to be granted by the Agency under subsection (2) for a type of specified waste.
A person who is to be granted a licence may be selected by the Agency from among those who submit tenders in response to an invitation to tender for the right to operate a producer responsibility scheme under that licence.
Any invitation to tender under this section must specify that an applicant who tenders for a licence must state the amount (by reference to quantity or method or otherwise) that the applicant will charge members of the producer responsibility scheme if the applicant is granted a licence.