Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OZONE PROTECTION AND SYNTHETIC GREENHOUSE GAS MANAGEMENT ACT 1989

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title [see Note 1]  
   2.      Commencement [see Note 1]  
   3.      Objectives  
   4.      Saving of certain State and Territory laws  
   5.      Act to bind the Crown  
   6.      Extension to external Territories  
   6A.     Application of the Criminal Code  

   PART II--EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED IN THE ACT

   7.      Definitions  
   8.      Quota periods  
   8A.     Licence periods  
   8B.     HCFC quotas and reserve HCFC quotas  
   9.      Scheduled substances in manufactured products  
   10.     Quantities expressed in ODP tonnes  
   12.     Recycling of scheduled substances  
   12A.    Feedstocks  

   PART III--LICENCES

   12B.    Part does not apply to import or export of CFCs, HCFCs and SGGs for use on board ships or aircraft  
   13.     Unlicensed manufacture, import or export  
   13A.    Licences and what they allow  
   14.     Application for licence  
   15.     Request for further information  
   16.     Grant of licence  
   17.     Deemed refusal of licence  
   18.     Conditions of licences  
   19.     Duration of licences  
   19A.    Termination of licences  
   19B.    Transfer of licences  
   19C.    Amendment of licence at request of licensee  
   20.     Cancellation of licence  
   21.     Surrender of licence  
   22.     Publication of information regarding licences etc.  

   PART IV--HCFC--QUOTAS

   23.     Meaning of licence and licensee  
   24.     How to work out HCFC industry limits  
   25.     How to work out reserve HCFC quota limits  
   26.     Start of first HCFC quota period  
   27.     Application for quota  
   28.     Allocation of quota  
   29.     Limits on power to allocate reserve HCFC quotas  
   30.     Duration of quotas  
   31.     HCFC quota sizes  
   32.     Reserve HCFC quota sizes  
   33.     Reserve HCFC quotas: variation or revocation  
   34.     Quotas cease when licences cease  
   35.     Transfer of quotas  

   PART V--CONTROL OF MANUFACTURE ETC

   37.     Persons to whom this Part applies, activities to which this Part applies  
   38.     Manufacture and import of products in contravention of Schedule 4  
   39.     Regulations concerning manufacture etc. of scheduled substances  
   40.     Exemptions  

   PART VI--CONTROL OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

   41.     Montreal Protocol countries  
   44.     Import of products containing scheduled substances from non-Montreal Protocol countries  
   45.     Import of products manufactured using scheduled substances from non-Montreal Protocol countries  

   PART VIA--CONTROLS ON DISPOSAL, USE ETC

   45A.    Regulation of disposal, use etc. of scheduled substances  
   45B.    Discharge of scheduled substances  

   PART VII--REPORTS AND RECORDS

   46.     Quarterly reports by manufacturers, importers and exporters of scheduled substances and pre-charged equipment  
   48.     Records to be kept by licensees  

   PART VIII--ENFORCEMENT

           Division 1--Inspectors

   48A.    Meaning of inspector  
   49.     Appointment of inspectors  
   50.     Identity cards  
   51.     Searches to monitor compliance with Act etc.  
   52.     Offence-related searches and seizures  
   53.     Warrants may be granted by telephone  
   54.     Power to require information etc.  
   55.     Retention of books, records and documents  

           Division 2--Injunctions

   56.     Injunctions  

           Division 3--Forfeiture of goods

   57.     Forfeitable goods  
   58.     Goods forfeited to Commonwealth  
   59.     Power to seize forfeited goods  
   60.     Persons not to move etc. seized goods  
   61.     Disposal of forfeited goods  

           Division 4--Offences

   62.     False statements  
   63.     Obstruction of inspectors etc.  
   64.     Failure to answer questions etc.  
   65.     Conduct by directors, servants and agents  

   PART VIIIA--OZONE PROTECTION AND SGG ACCOUNT

   65A.    Definitions  
   65B.    Ozone Protection and SGG Account  
   65C.    Amounts to be credited to the Account  
   65D.    Purposes of the Account  

   PART IX--MISCELLANEOUS

   66.     Review of decisions  
   67.     Statements to accompany notification of decisions  
   67A.    Delegation  
   68.     Annual report  
   69.     Collection of licence levies  
   69A.    Implementation of Montreal Protocol—supplementary regulations  
   69B.    Severability  
   70.     Regulations  
           SCHEDULE 1 Scheduled substances
           SCHEDULE 2 Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
           SCHEDULE 3 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
           SCHEDULE 3A Adjustments to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer of 16 September 1987
           SCHEDULE 3B Adjustments to Annexes A, B and E of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer of 16 September 1987
           SCHEDULE 3C Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer of 16 September 1987
           SCHEDULE 3D Beijing amendment to the Montreal Protocol
           SCHEDULE 3E Framework Convention on Climate Change
           SCHEDULE 4