Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1994 No. 36 ANTARCTIC TREATY (ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION) (WASTE MANAGEMENT) REGULATIONS - REG 19

19. (1) Subject to subregulations (2) and (3), a person who uses a waste
disposal site or work site in the Antarctic and abandons it must clean up the
site. Penalty: 20 penalty units.

(2) A person must not take from a waste disposal site or a work site that is
being abandoned:

   (a)  a structure that has been designated as an historic site or monument;
        or

   (b)  a structure that is entered on:

        (i)    the Register of the National Estate; or

        (ii)   the Interim List for the Register of the National Estate; kept
               under the Australian Heritage Commission Act 1975; or

   (c)  waste or a structure, if the Minister decides under Part 3 of the Act
        that taking the waste or structure from the site would have a greater
        environmental impact than leaving the waste or structure in its
        present position.

(3) Subregulation (1) does not require a site to be cleaned up before an
assessment has been made of the historical value of any material or structure
on the site.