Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

HAZARDOUS WASTE (REGULATION OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS) (OECD DECISION) REGULATIONS 1996

- made under the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of regulations see Note 1]  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Object  
   4.      Interpretation  
   5.      Meaning of appropriate insurance  
   6.      Wastes destined for recovery operations that require control procedures to allow transboundary movement  
   7.      Other wastes including wastes not listed in Appendix 3 or Appendix 4 of the OECD decision  
   8.      Mixtures of wastes  
   8A.     Transboundary movement of wastes for laboratory analysis  

   PART 2--APPLICATIONS FOR SPECIAL PERMITS

   9.      Application for special permit  
   10.     Variation of applications  
   11.     Minister may request more information  
   12.     Acknowledgment and notification  

   PART 3--GRANT OF SPECIAL PERMITS
           Division 1 Special export permits

   13.     Interpretation  
   14.     Decision on permit application  
   15.     Circumstances affecting decision period  
   16.     Grant of special export permit  
   17.     Commencement and duration of special export permits  
   18.     Matters to be specified in permit  
           Division 2 Special import permits
   19.     Definition for Division 2  
   20.     Decision on permit application  
   21.     Circumstances affecting decision period — general  
   22.     Circumstances affecting decision period — amber list hazardous waste intended for approved recovery facility  
   23.     Grant of special import permit  
   24.     Commencement and duration of special import permits  
   25.     Matters to be specified in permit  
           Division 3 Special transit permits
   26.     Definition for Division 3  
   27.     Decision on permit application  
   28.     Circumstances affecting decision period  
   29.     Grant of special transit permit  
   30.     Commencement and duration of special transit permits  
   31.     Matters to be specified in permit  
           Division 4 Special permit conditions
   32.     Movement/Tracking form to accompany shipment of waste  
   33.     Other conditions specified in special permits  

   PART 4--REVOCATION, SURRENDER AND VARIATION OF SPECIAL

   34.     Revocation of permits  
   35.     Surrender of permits  
   36.     Applications to vary permits  
   37.     Minister may request more information  
   38.     Acknowledgment and notification  
   39.     Decision on variation applications  
   40.     Variation applications — circumstances affecting decision period  
   41.     Variation of permits without application  

   PART 5--MISCELLANEOUS

   42.     Pre-consent of recovery facilities  
   43.     Review of decisions  
   44.     Delegation  
           SCHEDULE 1 OECD Decision