LITTER ACT 2007

Table of Provisions

PART 1 - Preliminary

• 1 Short title
• 2 Commencement
• 3 Interpretation
• 4 Application of Act
• 5 Objects of Act
• 6 Act binds Crown

PART 2 - Authorised Officers

• 7 Power of Director to appoint authorised officers
• 8 Power of councils to appoint employees as authorised officers
• 8A Ex-officio authorised officers

PART 3 - Prohibition of Littering Division 1 - Littering

• 9 Littering offences
• 9A Offence relating to recording camera
• 9B Additional penalties for certain offences under section 9

Division 2 - Unsolicited documents and advertising material

• 10 Meaning of “unsolicited document”
• 11 Unsolicited documents must be put in mailboxes, &c.
• 12 Leaflets, &c., not to be placed on vehicles or vessels
• 13 Bill-posting without consent
• 14 Advertiser must disclose name of distributor
• 15 Distributor must disclose name of depositor
• 16 Duty of person authorising or arranging for unsolicited document

Division 3 - Infringement notices

• 17 Infringement notice
• 18 Claiming statutory exception to liability of registered operator or
owner
• 19 Section 19
• 20 Section 20
• 21 Section 21
• 22 Section 22
• 23 Section 23

Division 4 - Onus of registered operators and owners

• 24 Onus of registered operator in respect of motor vehicle or trailer
• 24A Onus of registered owner in respect of vessel
• 25 Proceedings in respect of registered operator or owner onus liability
• 26 Evidentiary effect of statutory declaration in proceedings against
another person
• 27 More than one person registered as operator of motor vehicle or
trailer
• 28 More than one person registered as owner of vessel
• 29 Bodies corporate and joint registered operators and owners
• 30 Exceptions to liability of registered operators and owners
• 31 Section 31

Division 5 - Removal and prevention of litter

• 32 Special authority for authorised officers in reserved lands
• 33 Duty of litterer to remove litter
• 34 Court may order removal of litter
• 35 Litter abatement notices
• 36 Form of litter abatement notices
• 37 Amendment or revocation of litter abatement notices
• 38 Recovery of costs arising from litter abatement notices

Division 6 - Reporting of offences by public

• 39 Reports of offences
• 40 False or misleading statements

PART 4 - Powers of Authorised Officers

• 41 Powers of authorised officers
• 42 Obstruction of authorised officers
• 43 Names and addresses of offenders
• 44 Powers of police officers
• 45 Direction by police officers in connection with offences
• 46 Facilitation of proof of certain matters concerning motor vehicles
and trailers
• 46A Facilitation of proof of certain matters concerning vessels
• 47 Evidence of identity and authority

PART 5 - Litter Management Fund

• 48 Litter Management Fund

PART 6 - Miscellaneous and Supplemental

• 49 Protection from liability
• 50 Delegation of functions, &c., by Director
• 50A Exemptions
• 51 Evidentiary provision
• 51A Time for instituting proceedings
• 52 Regulations
• 53 Administration of Act
• 53A 2010 transitional provisions
• 54 Section 54
• 55 Legislation repealed
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