Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HAZARDOUS WASTE (REGULATION OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS) ACT 1989 - SECT 4F

  (1)   This section has effect for the purposes of the application of this Act:

  (a)   to the import or proposed import of a substance or object from a particular foreign country; or

  (b)   to the export or proposed export of a substance or object to a particular foreign country; or

  (c)   to, or to the carrying out of, a transit proposal that involves the export of a substance or object to a particular foreign country.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   the country is a party to an Article 11 arrangement; and

  (b)   the substance or object is subject to notification or control under the arrangement; and

  (c)   apart from this section, the substance or object is not hazardous waste;

the substance or object is taken to be hazardous waste for those purposes.