Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

RECYCLING AND WASTE REDUCTION ACT 2020 - SECT 20

  (1)   A person contravenes this subsection if:

  (a)   the person exports waste material; and

  (b)   the waste material is regulated waste material; and

  (c)   the export of the waste material is prohibited unless prescribed export conditions are complied with; and

  (d)   prescribed export conditions are not complied with.

Fault - based offence

  (2)   A person commits an offence if the person contravenes subsection   (1).

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 5 years or 300 penalty units, or both.

  (3)   For the purposes of subsection   (2), strict liability applies to paragraphs   (1)(b) and (c).

Civil penalty provision

  (4)   A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection   (1).

Civil penalty:   600 penalty units.

When waste material is exported

  (5)   For the purposes of this section, waste material is exported when the conveyance transporting the waste material from Australia starts its journey to a place outside Australia (whether or not that place is the intended final overseas destination for the waste material).