WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING ACT 2011 - SECT 124 Matters to be complied with in the preparation and adoption of a local government’s waste reduction and recycling plan

WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING ACT 2011 - SECT 124

124 Matters to be complied with in the preparation and adoption of a local government’s waste reduction and recycling plan

(1) A local government, in preparing or adopting a waste reduction and recycling plan for its local government area, must have regard to—

(a) current and predicted information about the following matters relating to its area—

(i) population profiles;

(ii) residential, industrial and commercial development;

(iii) amounts and types of waste generated; and

(b) the services, markets and facilities relevant to dealing with different types and amounts of waste; and

(c) the waste and resource management hierarchy; and

(d) the waste and resource management principles; and

(e) how the goals and targets of the State’s waste management strategy will be achieved.

(2) Subsection (1) does not limit the matters the local government may or ought to have regard to.

(3) A waste reduction and recycling plan for a local government must provide for the plan to be in effect for a period (the
"implementation period" for the plan) of at least 3 years.

(4) Subsection (3) does not stop a waste reduction and recycling plan being amended or replaced within the implementation period for the plan.