{"id":"environmental-protection-controlled-waste-regulations-2004","name":"Environmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Regulations 2004","slug":"environmental-protection-controlled-waste-regulations-2004","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":176583,"registerId":"wa-environmental-protection-controlled-waste-regulations-2004-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Environmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Regulations 2004","content":"![Crest]()Western Australia\n\nEnvironmental Protection Act 1986\n\nEnvironmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Regulations 2004\n\nWestern Australia\n\nEnvironmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Regulations 2004\n\nContents\n\nPart 1 — Preliminary\n\n1. Citation 1\n\n2. Terms used 1\n\n3. Application of regulations 4\n\nPart 2 — Licensing\n\nDivision 1 — General matters\n\n4. Application for licence 6\n\n5. Licensing 6\n\n6. Conditions 7\n\n7. Refund of fee 8\n\n8. Validity of licence 9\n\n9. Renewal of licence 9\n\n10. Cancellation or suspension of, refusal to renew, licence 9\n\nDivision 2 — Carriers\n\n11. Certain carriers to be licensed 11\n\n12. Refusal of licence 11\n\n13. Sub‑contractors 11\n\n14. Employment of unlicensed driver to transport bulk controlled waste 12\n\n15. Notification of employment of licensed drivers 12\n\n16. Interstate carriers 12\n\nDivision 3 — Drivers\n\n17. Drivers to be licensed 13\n\n18. Refusal of licence 13\n\n19. Driver identification card 14\n\n20. Recognition of licence issued in another State or a Territory 14\n\nDivision 4 — Vehicle or tank\n\n21. Vehicles and tanks of carriers to be licensed 15\n\n22. Application for licence and inspection of vehicle or tank 15\n\n23. Issue of licence 16\n\n24. Validity of licence 16\n\nDivision 5 — Assignment of carrier’s business and transfer of licence\n\n25A. Terms used 17\n\n25B. Assignment of carrier’s business 17\n\n25C. Transfer of licence 17\n\n25D. Validity of transferred licence 18\n\n25E. Transitional 19\n\nPart 3 — Transportation and unloading of a controlled waste\n\nDivision 1 — Waste holder’s obligations\n\n25. Obligations relating to transportation 20\n\n26. Notice of controlled waste 21\n\n27. Directions to transport controlled waste to waste facility 21\n\nDivision 2 — Carrier’s obligations\n\n28. Controlled waste tracking form required to transport controlled waste 22\n\n29. Obligations of carrier as to transportation of controlled waste 22\n\n30. Obligations of carrier as to vehicles and tanks used to transport controlled waste 23\n\n31A. Obligations of carrier as to transportation of anything other than controlled waste in licensed vehicle or tank 23\n\n31. Obligations of carrier as to receipt 24\n\n32A. Obligations of carrier as to controlled waste tracking form information 24\n\nDivision 3 — Driver’s obligations\n\n32. Obligations of drivers as to transportation of controlled waste 25\n\n33. Obligations of drivers as to vehicles or tanks used to transport controlled waste 25\n\n34. Obligations of drivers as to transportation of anything other than controlled waste in licensed vehicle or tank 25\n\n35. Obligations of driver to provide receipt 26\n\nDivision 4 — Controlled waste tracking form and controlled waste tracking number\n\n36. Validity of controlled waste tracking form 26\n\n37. Controlled waste tracking number fee 28\n\n38. CEO to ensure each controlled waste tracking form has unique number 28\n\nDivision 5 — Unloading controlled waste\n\n39. Obligations as to unloading controlled waste 28\n\n40. Procedure on unloading controlled waste 30\n\n41A. Carrier to provide CEO with copy of controlled waste tracking form 31\n\n41. Obligations of occupier of waste facility 31\n\nDivision 6 — Disposal of material containing asbestos\n\n42. Terms used 32\n\n43. Disposal of material containing asbestos 33\n\n44. Asbestos for disposal to be separated, wrapped and labelled 34\n\n45. Duty to notify others of presence of asbestos 34\n\n46. CEO may approve place and manner of disposal in special cases 34\n\n47. Method of disposal 35\n\nPart 4 — Miscellaneous\n\n48. Responsibility of carrier 36\n\n49. Exemptions 36\n\n50A. Application for exemption 38\n\n50. Inspection of licences, tracking forms and tracking numbers 38\n\n51. Meeting 38\n\n52. Appeals 38\n\n53. Penalty 39\n\n54. Fees 39\n\nSchedule 1 — Controlled waste\n\nSchedule 2 — Transport information\n\nDivision 1 — Information to be provided by driver to waste holder\n\nDivision 2 — Information to be provided by waste holder\n\nDivision 3 — Information to be recorded on controlled waste tracking form\n\nDivision 4 — Information to be recorded by the occupier of waste facility\n\nSchedule 3 — Fees\n\nNotes\n\nCompilation table 48\n\nDefined terms\n\n  \n\nEnvironmental Protection Act 1986\n\nEnvironmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Regulations 2004\n\n## Part 1 — Preliminary\n\n##### 1. Citation\n\nThese regulations may be cited as the *Environmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Regulations 2004*.\n\n##### 2. Terms used\n\nIn these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears —\n\n  apparatus for the treatment of sewage means any apparatus for the bacteriolytic or aerobic treatment of sewage or any other apparatus for the treatment of sewage approved by the Chief Health Officer under the *Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911*;\n\n  approved means approved in writing by the CEO;\n\n  bulk controlled waste means a controlled waste that is transported in a tank;\n\n  carrier means a person licensed as a carrier under these regulations;\n\n  clinical waste means waste generated by medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, pharmaceutical or other related activity which is —\n\n(a) poisonous or infectious; or\n\n(b) likely to cause injury to public health; or\n\n(c) contains human tissue or body parts;\n\ncontrolled waste means any matter that is —\n\n(a) within the definition of waste in the NEPM for the *Movement of Controlled Waste between States and Territories*; and\n\n(b) listed in Schedule 1;\n\n  controlled waste tracking form means an approved form —\n\n(a) that has been issued by the Department in paper or electronic form to track the transportation of a type of controlled waste; and\n\n(b) that has not ceased to be valid under regulation 36;\n\ncontrolled waste tracking number means the unique number recorded on a controlled waste tracking form under regulation 38;\n\n  corresponding law means a law of another State or a Territory relating to the transportation or disposal of a controlled waste;\n\n  interstate licence means a licence, authorisation, permit, notice, registration or approval in force in another State or a Territory under a corresponding law;\n\n  licence means a licence under these regulations;\n\npackaged controlled waste means a controlled waste that is transported otherwise than as a bulk controlled waste;\n\n  sewage means waste containing faecal matter or urine;\n\n  solid means a substance that —\n\n(a) has an angle of repose of greater than 5 degrees; and\n\n(b) does not contain, or is not comprised of, any free liquids; and\n\n(c) does not contain, or is not comprised of, any liquids that are capable of being released when the waste is transported; and\n\n(d) does not become free flowing at or below 60°C or when it is transported; and\n\n(e) is capable of being moved by a spade at normal temperatures;\n\ntank means an enclosed space that is on, attached to or part of a vehicle and used, or designed to be used, for the transportation of a liquid or gas in bulk;\n\ntransit facility means a waste facility that may be used for the temporary storage of a controlled waste;\n\n  vehicle means a self‑propelled vehicle operated on a road, or trailer or semi‑trailer when attached to such a self‑propelled vehicle;\n\nwaste facility means —\n\n(a) prescribed premises in respect of which a licence has been issued under Part V of the Act to store, treat, reuse or dispose of a controlled waste; or\n\n(b) a facility licensed, registered or otherwise approved to store, treat, reuse or dispose of a controlled waste under a corresponding law; or\n\n(c) a facility at which a controlled waste may be lawfully unloaded for transportation to another State or a Territory or overseas; or\n\n(d) a dangerous goods site licensed under the *Dangerous Goods Safety (Storage and Handling of Non‑explosives) Regulations 2007* Part 4; or\n\n(e) a sewer of a licensee under the *Water Services Act 2012*; or\n\n(f) premises registered under the *Environmental Protection Regulations 1987* regulation 5B to store, treat, reuse or dispose of a controlled waste; or\n\n(g) a site approved by the CEO as a waste facility; or\n\n(h) a facility at which a controlled waste may be lawfully unloaded, stored, treated, reused or disposed of otherwise than as provided for in another paragraph of this definition;\n\nwaste holder means a person —\n\n(a) who is in possession or control of a controlled waste on premises; or\n\n(b) whose apparatus or activities produce controlled waste.\n\n[Regulation 2 amended: Gazette 20 Jun 2008 p. 2684; 14 Nov 2013 p. 5039-40; 1 Aug 2014 p. 2787-90; 10 Jan 2017 p. 194.]\n\n##### 3. Application of regulations\n\n[(1), (2) deleted]\n\n(3) These regulations do not apply to a matter referred to in clause 8(d), (e), (g), (h) or (i) of the NEPM for the *Movement of Controlled Waste Between States and Territories*.\n\n(4) Subject to subregulations (5) and (6), these regulations apply to a controlled waste that is produced by or as the result of —\n\n(a) an industrial or commercial activity; or\n\n(b) a medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, pharmaceutical or other related activity; or\n\n(c) activities carried out on or at a laboratory; or\n\n(d) an apparatus for the treatment of sewage.\n\n(5) This subregulation, the provisions contained in Part 3 Division 6 and regulation 53 are the only provisions of these regulations that apply to the transportation of asbestos.\n\n(6) These regulations do not apply to any of the following —\n\n(a) a controlled waste that is transported on a road under the *Radiation Safety (Transport of Radioactive Substances) Regulations 2002*;\n\n(b) a controlled waste that may be lawfully accepted at a Class I inert landfill site, a Class II putrescible landfill site or a Class III putrescible landfill site (as determined by reference to the waste types set out in the document entitled “*Landfill Waste Classification and Waste Definitions 1996*” published by the CEO and as amended from time to time) other than —\n\n(i) asbestos; or\n\n(ii) clinical or related waste; or\n\n(iii) tyres; or\n\n(iv) encapsulated, chemically fixed, solidified or polymerised controlled wastes.\n\n[Regulation 3 amended: Gazette 13 Apr 2007 p. 1669; 1 Aug 2014 p. 2790.]\n\n## Part 2 — Licensing\n\n### Division 1 — General matters\n\n##### 4. Application for licence\n\n(1) An application for a licence is to be —\n\n(a) made in the approved manner and approved form duly completed; and\n\n(b) accompanied by the appropriate fee prescribed in Schedule 3.\n\n(2) The CEO may, before determining an application for a licence, require the applicant to provide the CEO with such further information as the CEO requires in any particular case.\n\n##### 5. Licensing\n\n(1) Subject to subregulation (2) and regulations 12 and 18, the CEO is to grant an application made under regulation 4 and issue a licence to the applicant.\n\n(2) The CEO may refuse an application made under regulation 4 if —\n\n(a) the applicant, or where the applicant is a body corporate, an individual concerned with the control and management of the body corporate, has been convicted of an offence against the Act, these regulations or any other offence that relates to the transportation, storage or disposal of a controlled waste; or\n\n(b) the CEO has reasonable grounds to suspect that the applicant, or where the applicant is a body corporate, an individual concerned with the control and management of the body corporate, is not of good character and repute and fit to be involved in the business in respect of which the application is made; or\n\n(c) the applicant’s licence is suspended; or\n\n(d) the applicant, or where the applicant is a body corporate, an individual concerned with the control and management of the body corporate, has previously been licensed under these regulations and that licence has been cancelled or refused renewal; or\n\n(e) the applicant has been refused an interstate licence or a renewal of an interstate licence or the applicant’s interstate licence has been cancelled, revoked or withdrawn; or\n\n(f) the CEO has reasonable grounds to suspect that the application contains or is accompanied by information that is false or misleading to a significant extent; or\n\n(g) the applicant is already the holder of a licence, or where the applicant is a body corporate, an individual concerned with the control and management of the body corporate, is already the holder of a licence or is concerned with the control and management of a body corporate that is already the holder of a licence.\n\n(3) If the CEO has not determined an application made under regulation 4 by the end of the period of 30 days —\n\n(a) beginning on the day on which the application was made to the CEO; or\n\n(b) beginning on the day on which information required to be provided under regulation 4(2) is received by the CEO,\n\nwhichever is the later, he or she is taken to have made a decision to refuse the application on the last day of that period.\n\n[Regulation 5 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2791.]\n\n##### 6. Conditions\n\n(1) The CEO may issue or renew a licence subject to such conditions as the CEO thinks fit to impose.\n\n(2) The CEO may at any time by written notice —\n\n(a) impose conditions upon a licence that has been granted; and\n\n(b) add to, change or remove conditions already imposed; and\n\n(c) in the case of a licence issued to a carrier or a driver, add or remove a type of controlled waste specified in the licence.\n\n(3) If the CEO decides to act under subregulation (2) —\n\n(a) the CEO is to give written notice of the decision to the holder of the licence; and\n\n(b) the decision does not take effect until 7 days after the notice is given, or such later time as is set out in the notice.\n\n(4) A person who holds a licence and who contravenes a condition to which that licence is subject commits an offence.\n\n(5) A person who holds a licence may apply to the CEO for a condition of a licence to be changed or removed by application —\n\n(a) made in the approved form; and\n\n(b) accompanied by the appropriate fee prescribed in Schedule 3.\n\n##### 7. Refund of fee\n\nA full or partial refund of the fee accompanying an application for a licence, or for the renewal of a licence, may be made to the applicant at the discretion of the CEO if the application is not granted or, if granted, the licence is issued or renewed for a period of less than one year, 3 years or 5 years, as the case requires, but no refund is demandable.\n\n[Regulation 7 inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2791.]\n\n##### 8. Validity of licence\n\nSubject to these regulations, a licence under these regulations is valid for a period, beginning on the day it is issued, of one year, 3 years or 5 years, as specified in the licence.\n\n[Regulation 8 inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2791.]\n\n##### 9. Renewal of licence\n\n(1) Upon application —\n\n(a) made before a licence expires; and\n\n(b) made in the approved manner and the approved form duly completed; and\n\n(c) accompanied by the appropriate fee prescribed in Schedule 3,\n\nthe CEO may renew the licence.\n\n(2) An applicant for renewal of a licence may apply to renew the licence for a period of one year, 3 years or 5 years and subject to these regulations the renewal, if granted, is to have effect for that period.\n\n(3) A renewal of a licence takes effect on the day immediately succeeding the day on which the previous licence expired or will expire.\n\n[Regulation 9 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2792.]\n\n##### 10. Cancellation or suspension of, refusal to renew, licence\n\n(1) Subject to this regulation, the CEO may cancel, suspend for a fixed period, or refuse to renew a licence if —\n\n(a) the holder has been convicted of an offence against the Act, these regulations, or any other offence that relates to the transportation, storage or disposal of a controlled waste; or\n\n(b) there has been a breach of a condition to which the licence is subject; or\n\n(c) the CEO has reasonable grounds to suspect that the licence was obtained by fraud or misrepresentation; or\n\n(d) the holder’s interstate licence has been cancelled, revoked, withdrawn or suspended or a renewal of that licence has been refused.\n\n(2A) Without limiting subregulation (1), if the CEO has reasonable grounds to suspect that the holder of a licence, or if the holder of the licence is a body corporate, an individual concerned with the control and management of the body corporate, is not of good character and repute and fit to be involved in the business in respect of which the licence is held, the CEO may cancel, suspend for a fixed period, or refuse to renew the licence.\n\n(2) If the holder of a licence is charged with an offence under the Act or a corresponding law relating to the transportation, storage or disposal of a controlled waste or an offence under these regulations, the CEO may suspend the licence until the charge in respect of the offence has been finally dealt with or determined according to law.\n\n(3A) Without limiting regulation 37(2), if a carrier does not pay the fee payable under regulation 37(1) for a controlled waste tracking number within the time specified by the CEO, the CEO may suspend the carrier’s licence until the fee is paid.\n\n(3) Unless otherwise provided in these regulations, if the CEO proposes to cancel, suspend or refuse to renew a licence, the CEO is to give to the holder of the licence written notice of the proposal and the reasons for the proposal.\n\n(4) A notice given under subregulation (3) is to state that within 14 days after the notice is given, the person to whom it is given may make written representations to the CEO concerning the matter, and the CEO is not to determine the matter without considering any representations received within that period of 14 days.\n\n(5) If the CEO cancels, suspends or refuses to renew a licence, the CEO is to give to the holder of the licence written notice of the cancellation, suspension or refusal to renew.\n\n[Regulation 10 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2792-3.]\n\n### Division 2 — Carriers\n\n##### 11. Certain carriers to be licensed\n\n(1) A person who —\n\n(a) transports or causes to be transported for gain or reward on a road a bulk controlled waste or a packaged controlled waste; and\n\n(b) is not licensed as a carrier,\n\ncommits an offence.\n\n(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to a driver employed or engaged by a carrier.\n\n##### 12. Refusal of licence\n\nIn addition to the grounds specified in regulations 5 and 10, the CEO may refuse an application for, or for renewal of, a licence as a carrier, or suspend or cancel the licence of a carrier, if the CEO is satisfied that the applicant or carrier is not competent to operate as a carrier of a type of controlled waste referred to in regulation 11(1)(a).\n\n##### 13. Sub‑contractors\n\n(1) If a carrier sub‑contracts the transportation on a road of a type of controlled waste referred to in regulation 11(1)(a), the carrier’s sub‑contractor must not transport or cause to be transported that type of controlled waste if the sub‑contractor is not licensed as a carrier.\n\n(2) A sub‑contractor who contravenes subregulation (1) commits an offence.\n\n##### 14. Employment of unlicensed driver to transport bulk controlled waste\n\nIf —\n\n(a) a carrier employs or engages a person to drive a vehicle to transport a bulk controlled waste on a road; and\n\n(b) the driver is not licensed to transport that type of controlled waste,\n\nthe carrier commits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 14 inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2793.]\n\n##### 15. Notification of employment of licensed drivers\n\n(1) A carrier who does not within 14 days of the commencement of these regulations or of being licensed as a carrier give the CEO notice in writing of the names of any licensed drivers employed by the carrier commits an offence.\n\n(2) A carrier who does not notify the CEO in writing within 14 days of a licensed driver commencing or ceasing to be employed by the carrier commits an offence.\n\n##### 16. Interstate carriers\n\nIn proceedings against a person for a breach of a regulation listed in the Table to this regulation it is a defence for a person who transports or causes to be transported from another State or a Territory to this State for gain or reward on a road any controlled waste of a type referred to in regulation 11(1)(a) to prove that the person had an interstate licence to transport or cause to be transported that type of controlled waste.\n\n**Table**\n\n| r. 11(1) | r. 21 |\n| --- | --- |\n| r. 13 | r. 22 |\n\n\n[Regulation 16 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2793.]\n\n### Division 3 — Drivers\n\n##### 17. Drivers to be licensed\n\nA person —\n\n(a) who is employed or engaged by a carrier to drive a vehicle to transport a bulk controlled waste on a road; and\n\n(b) who is not licensed as a driver,\n\ncommits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 17 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2794.]\n\n##### 18. Refusal of licence\n\n(1) In addition to the grounds specified in regulations 5 and 10, the CEO may refuse an application for, or for renewal of, a licence as a driver, or suspend or cancel the licence of a driver, if the CEO is satisfied that the applicant or driver does not have adequate technical competence to drive a vehicle transporting a bulk controlled waste.\n\n(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1) and without limiting regulation 4(2), the CEO may require an applicant or driver to demonstrate adequate technical competence to drive a vehicle transporting a bulk controlled waste by doing one or more of the following —\n\n(a) completing an appropriate approved driver training course;\n\n(b) passing a written test or examination that is part of the driver training course approved under paragraph (a);\n\n(c) providing any information relevant to driving a vehicle transporting a bulk controlled waste that is specified by the CEO.\n\n(3) An applicant or driver who refuses to comply with a requirement under subregulation (2) is to be taken not to have adequate technical competence to drive a vehicle transporting a bulk controlled waste.\n\n[Regulation 18 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2794.]\n\n##### 19. Driver identification card\n\n(1) The CEO is to issue a driver identification card to each licensed driver.\n\n(2) A licensed driver who fails —\n\n(a) to carry his or her driver identification card at all times while engaged in the transportation of a bulk controlled waste on a road; or\n\n(b) when required to do so by an inspector, to produce for inspection his or her driver identification card,\n\ncommits an offence.\n\n##### 20. Recognition of licence issued in another State or a Territory\n\n(1) A person who —\n\n(a) has an interstate licence as a driver to transport a bulk controlled waste; and\n\n(b) applies to and satisfies the CEO that, having regard to regulation 5, the person is a suitable person to be licensed as a driver of a vehicle transporting a bulk controlled waste; and\n\n(c) pays the appropriate fee prescribed in Schedule 3,\n\nis to be licensed as a driver.\n\n(2) If the person’s interstate licence is not subject to any condition or restriction, the person’s licence under these regulations is not to be subject to any condition or restriction.\n\n(3) If the person’s interstate licence is subject to any condition or restriction, the person’s licence under these regulations is to be subject to the conditions and restrictions to which the interstate licence is subject or such other or further conditions or restrictions as the CEO specifies.\n\n(4) This regulation does not have effect in respect of a person while the State is a participating jurisdiction as defined in the *Mutual Recognition Act 1992* section 4(1) of the Commonwealth.\n\n### Division 4 — Vehicle or tank\n\n##### 21. Vehicles and tanks of carriers to be licensed\n\nA carrier who transports or causes to be transported a bulk controlled waste on a road in a vehicle or tank other than —\n\n(a) a vehicle or tank that is licensed under this Part to transport a bulk controlled waste; or\n\n(b) a vehicle licensed under the *Dangerous Goods Safety (Road and Rail Transport of Non‑explosives) Regulations 2007*; or\n\n(c) a vehicle or tank or class of vehicle or tank that the CEO has exempted from the requirement to be licensed,\n\ncommits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 21 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2795.]\n\n##### 22. Application for licence and inspection of vehicle or tank\n\n(1) An application for a licence for a vehicle or tank may be made only by a carrier.\n\n(2) Before an application for a licence for a vehicle or tank is determined the applicant may be required by the CEO to submit the vehicle or tank for inspection at a time and place satisfactory to the CEO.\n\n(3) The CEO may by written notice require the owner of a licensed vehicle or tank to submit the vehicle or tank for inspection at a time and place specified in the notice.\n\n(4) The CEO may by written notice direct that a licensed vehicle or tank is to be modified as specified in the notice if the CEO is of the opinion that the vehicle or tank requires that modification in order to comply with a condition subject to which the vehicle or tank is licensed.\n\n(5) An owner of a vehicle or tank who fails to comply with a notice issued under subregulation (3) or (4) commits an offence.\n\n##### 23. Issue of licence\n\n(1) A licence is not to be issued in respect of a vehicle or tank of a carrier unless the vehicle or tank has such equipment, systems or modifications as the CEO may require as a condition of licensing the vehicle or tank.\n\n(2) Nothing in subregulation (1) limits the power of the CEO at any time under regulation 6 to impose, add to, change or remove conditions upon a licence in respect of equipment, systems or modifications.\n\n(3) In addition to the grounds specified in regulation 10, the CEO may cancel, suspend for a fixed period, or refuse to renew a licence for a vehicle or tank if modifications relating to any of the matters referred to in subregulation (1) are made to the vehicle or tank without the approval of the CEO.\n\n##### 24. Validity of licence\n\n(1) The licence for a vehicle or tank of a carrier remains valid only while the licence of the carrier is valid.\n\n(2) If the licence of a carrier is suspended, the licence for each vehicle or tank of the carrier is suspended for the period of the suspension of the carrier’s licence.\n\n### Division 5 — Assignment of carrier’s business and transfer of licence\n\n[Heading inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2795.]\n\n##### 25A. Terms used\n\nIn this Division —\n\nassign, in relation to a business, vehicle or tank, means to sell or otherwise dispose of the business, vehicle or tank;\n\nassignee means the person to whom a business, vehicle or tank is assigned;\n\nassignment time means when a business, vehicle or tank is assigned, as referred to in regulation 25B(1);\n\nlicence means a carrier’s licence or a licence issued in respect of a vehicle or tank.\n\n[Regulation 25A inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2795.]\n\n##### 25B. Assignment of carrier’s business\n\n(1) Within 30 days after a carrier assigns to another person —\n\n(a) the business in respect of which the carrier’s licence is held; or\n\n(b) a licensed vehicle or licensed tank,\n\nthe carrier must give written notice to the CEO of that assignment.\n\n(2) A carrier who contravenes subregulation (1) commits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 25B inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2796.]\n\n##### 25C. Transfer of licence\n\n(1) This regulation applies if —\n\n(a) a business, vehicle or tank is assigned as referred to in regulation 25B(1); and\n\n(b) the assignee proposes to carry on the business, or operate the vehicle or tank, under the licence that had effect immediately before the assignment time.\n\n(2) An application for the transfer of a licence to the assignee —\n\n(a) is to be made by the assignee to the CEO in the approved form within 30 days after the assignment time; and\n\n(b) is to be accompanied by the appropriate fee prescribed in Schedule 3.\n\n(3) The CEO may, before determining an application for the transfer of a licence to the assignee, require the assignee to provide the CEO with any further information that the CEO requires in any particular case.\n\n(4) If the assignee complies with subregulations (2) and (3) and with any conditions to which the licence was subject at the assignment time, the assignee is to be regarded as having been the holder of the licence during the period —\n\n(a) beginning at the assignment time; and\n\n(b) continuing while the application for the transfer of the licence is pending.\n\n(5) Regulations 5, 6, 7 and 12 apply, with any necessary modifications, for the purposes of an application under this regulation as if it were an application under regulation 4.\n\n[Regulation 25C inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2796-7.]\n\n##### 25D. Validity of transferred licence\n\nSubject to these regulations, a licence that is transferred to the assignee under regulation 25C is valid for the remainder of the period for which it would have been valid if it had not been transferred.\n\n[Regulation 25D inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2797.]\n\n##### 25E. Transitional\n\n(1) In this regulation —\n\nformer holder of the licence means the person who held the licence immediately before the assignment time.\n\n(2) The transfer of a licence under regulation 25C does not affect any requirement imposed under these regulations on the former holder of the licence —\n\n(a) to pay a fee that was payable immediately before the assignment time; or\n\n(b) to send a controlled waste tracking form or other information to the CEO that had not been sent at that time.\n\n[Regulation 25E inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2797.]\n\n## Part 3 — Transportation and unloading of a controlled waste\n\n[Heading amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2798.]\n\n### Division 1 — Waste holder’s obligations\n\n[Heading amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2798.]\n\n##### 25. Obligations relating to transportation\n\n(1) A waste holder who causes or allows a controlled waste of a type referred to in regulation 11(1)(a) in the waste holder’s possession or control to be transported on a road by a person other than a carrier licensed to transport that type of controlled waste commits an offence.\n\n(2) A waste holder who gives a packaged controlled waste to a person or allows a person to collect that waste in a container that is not fit for the transportation of that waste commits an offence.\n\n(3) A waste holder who does not provide to a carrier transporting a controlled waste for the waste holder, or to a person collecting a controlled waste from the waste holder, the information relating to that waste set out in Schedule 2 Division 2 commits an offence.\n\n(4A) A waste holder who does not sign, or cause the waste holder’s representative to sign, the controlled waste tracking form held by the person collecting a controlled waste from the waste holder commits an offence.\n\n(4B) Subregulation (4A) does not apply if the waste holder is not present or represented when the controlled waste is collected from the waste holder.\n\n(4) A waste holder who provides information relating to the controlled waste under subregulation (3) that is —\n\n(a) false or misleading in a material particular; or\n\n(b) likely to deceive in a material way,\n\ncommits an offence.\n\n(5) A waste holder who engages a carrier to transport a controlled waste must keep a receipt issued by the carrier’s driver under regulation 35 for not less than 3 years from the day on which the waste was loaded onto or into the carrier’s vehicle or tank.\n\n(6) A waste holder who contravenes subregulation (5) commits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 25 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2798-9.]\n\n##### 26. Notice of controlled waste\n\n(1) The CEO may require a waste holder in possession or control of controlled waste to give the CEO a notice containing any one or more of the following items of information —\n\n(a) the type of controlled waste in the possession or control of the waste holder;\n\n(b) the quantity of the controlled waste in the possession or control of the waste holder;\n\n(c) the location of the premises and the place on those premises where the controlled waste is held.\n\n(2) A waste holder who is required to give the CEO a notice under subregulation (1) and who fails to give the notice within 14 days of receiving the request from the CEO commits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 26 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2799.]\n\n##### 27. Directions to transport controlled waste to waste facility\n\n(1) In this regulation —\n\n  specified waste means a controlled waste in the possession or control of a waste holder and specified in the notice.\n\n(2) The CEO may give a waste holder a notice requiring the waste holder to cause a specified waste to be transported to a waste facility in the manner and within the time specified in the notice.\n\n(3) A waste holder who fails to cause a specified waste to be transported to a waste facility in the manner or within the time specified in the notice referred to in subregulation (2) commits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 27 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2800.]\n\n### Division 2 — Carrier’s obligations\n\n##### 28. Controlled waste tracking form required to transport controlled waste\n\n(1) A carrier who transports or causes to be transported a controlled waste on a road without a controlled waste tracking form, containing the information set out in Schedule 2 Division 3, for the transportation of that waste commits an offence.\n\n(2) In proceedings against a carrier for a breach of subregulation (1) it is a defence for the carrier to prove that the controlled waste was a packaged controlled waste and the total weight or volume of packaged controlled waste being transported on the vehicle of the carrier at any one time was less than 200 kg or 200 L.\n\n[Regulation 28 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2800.]\n\n##### 29. Obligations of carrier as to transportation of controlled waste\n\n(1) A carrier who fails to ensure that a driver, employed or engaged by the carrier, of a vehicle which is being used to transport a controlled waste on a road has a controlled waste tracking form, containing the information set out in Schedule 2 Division 3, for the transportation of the waste commits an offence.\n\n(2) In proceedings against a carrier for a breach of subregulation (1) it is a defence for the carrier to prove that the controlled waste was a packaged controlled waste and the total weight or volume of packaged controlled waste being transported by the driver on a vehicle at any one time was less than 200 kg or 200 L.\n\n[Regulation 29 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2800.]\n\n##### 30. Obligations of carrier as to vehicles and tanks used to transport controlled waste\n\n(1) A carrier who fails to ensure that a vehicle or tank of the carrier that is being used on a road to transport a controlled waste is used in such a way as to prevent the waste spilling, discharging or falling from the vehicle or tank commits an offence.\n\n(2) In proceedings against a carrier for a breach of subregulation (1), it is a defence to prove that —\n\n(a) the carrier issued proper instructions and took reasonable precautions to ensure that the vehicle or tank was used in compliance with subregulation (1); and\n\n(b) the vehicle or tank was used otherwise than in compliance with subregulation (1) without the carrier’s knowledge; and\n\n(c) the carrier could not by the exercise of reasonable diligence have prevented the commission of the offence.\n\n[Regulation 30 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2801.]\n\n##### 31A. Obligations of carrier as to transportation of anything other than controlled waste in licensed vehicle or tank\n\n(1) A carrier who, except with the written permission of the CEO, transports or causes to be transported on a road anything that is not a controlled waste in a vehicle or tank licensed under Part 2 commits an offence.\n\n(2) In proceedings against a carrier for a breach of subregulation (1), it is a defence to prove that —\n\n(a) the carrier issued proper instructions and took reasonable precautions to ensure that the vehicle or tank was used in compliance with subregulation (1); and\n\n(b) the vehicle or tank was used otherwise than in compliance with subregulation (1) without the carrier’s knowledge; and\n\n(c) the carrier could not by the exercise of reasonable diligence have prevented the commission of the offence.\n\n[Regulation 31A inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2801-2.]\n\n##### 31. Obligations of carrier as to receipt\n\n(1) A carrier who fails to ensure that a driver employed or engaged by the carrier gives a waste holder a receipt under regulation 35 commits an offence.\n\n(2) In proceedings against a carrier for a breach of subregulation (1), it is a defence to prove that —\n\n(a) the carrier issued proper instructions and took reasonable precautions to ensure that the driver complied with subregulation (1); and\n\n(b) the driver failed to comply with subregulation (1) without the carrier’s knowledge; and\n\n(c) the carrier could not by the exercise of reasonable diligence have prevented the commission of the offence.\n\n[Regulation 31 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2802.]\n\n##### 32A. Obligations of carrier as to controlled waste tracking form information\n\n(1) In this regulation —\n\ncontrolled waste tracking form information means the information required to be contained in a controlled waste tracking form under regulation 28(1).\n\n(2) A carrier who fails to keep a record of controlled waste tracking form information for at least 3 years from the day on which the relevant controlled waste tracking form becomes valid under regulation 36 commits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 32A inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2803.]\n\n### Division 3 — Driver’s obligations\n\n##### 32. Obligations of drivers as to transportation of controlled waste\n\n(1) A driver who transports on a road a controlled waste without a controlled waste tracking form, containing the information set out in Schedule 2 Division 3, for the transportation of that waste commits an offence.\n\n(2) In proceedings against a driver for a breach of subregulation (1) it is a defence for the driver to prove that the controlled waste was a packaged controlled waste and the total weight or volume of packaged controlled waste being transported by the driver at any one time was less than 200 kg or 200 L.\n\n[Regulation 32 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2803.]\n\n##### 33. Obligations of drivers as to vehicles or tanks used to transport controlled waste\n\nA driver who fails to ensure that a vehicle or tank that he or she is using on a road to transport a controlled waste is used in such a way as to prevent the waste spilling, discharging or falling from the vehicle or tank commits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 33 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2803.]\n\n##### 34. Obligations of drivers as to transportation of anything other than controlled waste in licensed vehicle or tank\n\nA licensed driver who carries anything that is not a controlled waste in a vehicle or tank licensed under Part 2 commits an offence unless —\n\n(a) the CEO has given written permission to the carrier under regulation 31A; and\n\n(b) the driver has obtained a copy of that permission.\n\n[Regulation 34 inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2804.]\n\n##### 35. Obligations of driver to provide receipt\n\n(1) A driver who, before transporting a controlled waste on a road for a waste holder, does not give the waste holder a receipt setting out the information in Schedule 2 Division 1 commits an offence.\n\n(2) A driver who makes a statement in a receipt given under subregulation (1) that is —\n\n(a) false or misleading in a material particular; or\n\n(b) likely to deceive in a material way,\n\ncommits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 35 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2804.]\n\n### Division 4 — Controlled waste tracking form and controlled waste tracking number\n\n##### 36. Validity of controlled waste tracking form\n\n(1A) A reference in this regulation to a type of controlled waste includes a reference to a mixture of different types of controlled waste if —\n\n(a) that mixture of different types of controlled waste is permitted under the authority of the relevant carrier’s licence; and\n\n(b) all the controlled waste in that mixture is to be unloaded at the same waste facility.\n\n(1B) A controlled waste tracking form for the transportation on a road of a type of controlled waste that is to be unloaded at a transit facility is valid for the approved period.\n\n(1) Subject to subregulation (1B), a controlled waste tracking form for the transportation of a type of controlled waste on a road is valid —\n\n(a) in the case of a bulk controlled waste, for a period of 7 days beginning on the consignment day; or\n\n(b) in the case of any other controlled waste, for a period of 21 days beginning on the consignment day; or\n\n(c) in the case of any controlled waste, for a period ending when any part of the controlled waste loaded onto the vehicle or tank is unloaded at a waste facility or under regulation 39(1)(a),\n\nwhichever is the shorter period.\n\n(2) In subregulation (1) —\n\n  consignment day means the day on which any part of the type of controlled waste specified in the controlled waste tracking form is first loaded onto the vehicle or tank specified in the controlled waste tracking form.\n\n(3A) A controlled waste tracking form for the transportation of a type of controlled waste on a road is valid only in respect of —\n\n(a) the single vehicle or single tank; and\n\n(b) the single waste facility,\n\nspecified in the controlled waste tracking form.\n\n(3B) For the purposes of subregulation (3A)(a) —\n\n(a) if a vehicle has 2 or more trailers that contain a controlled waste, each trailer is taken to be a single vehicle; and\n\n(b) if a vehicle has 2 or more tanks that contain a controlled waste, each tank is taken to be a single tank.\n\n(3) Subject to subregulations (1) and (3A), a controlled waste tracking form for the transportation of a type of controlled waste on a road is valid for more than one collection of the type of controlled waste specified in the controlled waste tracking form whether collected from the same or different waste holders.\n\n[Regulation 36 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2804-6.]\n\n##### 37. Controlled waste tracking number fee\n\n(1) A person must pay the Department the fee prescribed in Schedule 3 for a controlled waste tracking number issued by the CEO to that person.\n\n(2) If a fee payable under subregulation (1) is not paid within the time specified by the CEO —\n\n(a) the amount of the fee may be recovered by the CEO in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due to the State; and\n\n(b) the CEO may refuse to issue a controlled waste tracking number to a person until all fees payable under that subregulation by that person have been paid to the CEO.\n\n##### 38. CEO to ensure each controlled waste tracking form has unique number\n\nThe CEO is to cause each controlled waste tracking form issued by the Department to have a unique number recorded on the form.\n\n[Regulation 38 inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2807.]\n\n### Division 5 — Unloading controlled waste\n\n[Heading inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2807.]\n\n##### 39. Obligations as to unloading controlled waste\n\n(1) A driver must not unload a controlled waste from a vehicle or tank except at a waste facility that may lawfully receive that type of controlled waste unless the waste is —\n\n(a) unloaded as approved or directed by the CEO under subregulation (5); or\n\n(b) unloaded so that it can be transferred directly to another vehicle or tank.\n\n(2) Unless otherwise approved or directed by the CEO, a driver must not unload a controlled waste at a waste facility —\n\n(a) if the controlled waste tracking form for the transportation of that controlled waste has ceased to be valid under regulation 36; and\n\n(b) in the case of a vehicle or tank that is used to bring a controlled waste from another State or a Territory, later than 7 days after the day on which the vehicle or tank entered this State.\n\n(3) Unless otherwise approved or directed by the CEO, a driver who has collected a controlled waste in this State and who is taking the waste to another State or a Territory must remove the waste from this State not later than 7 days after —\n\n(a) the day on which the waste was collected in this State; or\n\n(b) if the controlled waste is loaded onto a vehicle or tank other than on a road, the day on which the vehicle or tank enters a road,\n\nwhichever is the later.\n\n(4) A carrier must ensure that any controlled waste collected in a vehicle or tank of the carrier is unloaded in accordance with subregulations (1) and (2).\n\n(5) The CEO may approve or direct the unloading of a controlled waste —\n\n(a) at a specified waste facility other than the waste facility specified in the controlled waste tracking form for the transportation of that waste; and\n\n(b) at a specified time.\n\n[(6) deleted]\n\n(7) A person who contravenes subregulation (1), (2), (3) or (4) commits an offence.\n\n(8) In proceedings against a carrier for a breach of subregulation (4), it is a defence for the carrier to prove that —\n\n(a) the carrier issued proper instructions and took reasonable precautions to ensure that the driver complied with subregulations (1) and (2); and\n\n(b) the driver failed to comply with either or both of those subregulations, as the case may be, without the carrier’s knowledge; and\n\n(c) the carrier could not by the exercise of reasonable diligence have prevented the commission of the offence.\n\n[Regulation 39 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2807-9.]\n\n##### 40. Procedure on unloading controlled waste\n\n(1) Before unloading a controlled waste at a waste facility, the driver of the vehicle on which the waste is carried to the facility must —\n\n(a) if the driver is a licensed driver, present the driver’s identification card issued under regulation 19 to the occupier of the waste facility; and\n\n(b) give the controlled waste tracking form for the waste to be unloaded at the waste facility to the occupier of the waste facility.\n\n(2A) If the occupier of a waste facility is not present when the driver proposes to unload a controlled waste at the waste facility, subregulation (1) is complied with if the carrier or the driver gives to the occupier within 7 days after the controlled waste is unloaded at the waste facility —\n\n(a) a copy of the controlled waste tracking form; or\n\n(b) the controlled waste tracking number and the information set out in Schedule 2 Division 3 that the controlled waste tracking form contains.\n\n(2) A driver who contravenes subregulation (1) commits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 40 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2809-10.]\n\n##### 41A. Carrier to provide CEO with copy of controlled waste tracking form\n\n(1) Within 14 days after a controlled waste is unloaded from a vehicle or tank at a waste facility, the carrier must give to the CEO —\n\n(a) a copy of the controlled waste tracking form for the transportation of the controlled waste; or\n\n(b) the controlled waste tracking number and the information set out in Schedule 2 Division 3 that the controlled waste tracking form contains.\n\n(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to the unloading of a controlled waste at a transit facility unless a separate controlled waste tracking form has been issued for the transportation of the controlled waste from the transit facility.\n\n(3) A carrier who contravenes subregulation (1) commits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 41A inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2810.]\n\n##### 41. Obligations of occupier of waste facility\n\n(1) The occupier of a waste facility who receives a controlled waste from a driver must record the information relating to that waste set out in Schedule 2 Division 4 on the controlled waste tracking form for the transportation of that waste immediately after that waste is unloaded at the waste facility.\n\n(2) If the occupier of a waste facility is not present when the controlled waste is unloaded at the waste facility, the occupier complies with subregulation (1) if the occupier records the information referred to in that subregulation within 7 days after the carrier or the driver complies with regulation 40(2A).\n\n(3) A copy of a controlled waste tracking form completed under subregulation (1), or the controlled waste tracking number and the information set out in Schedule 2 Division 4 that the controlled waste tracking form contains, must be kept by the occupier of the waste facility for at least 3 years from the day on which the waste is unloaded at the waste facility.\n\n(4) The occupier of a waste facility who receives a controlled waste from a carrier must give to the driver or send to the carrier a receipt for the waste bearing the controlled waste tracking number for the transportation of the waste unloaded at the waste facility.\n\n(5) An occupier of a waste facility who issues a receipt under subregulation (4) must sign the receipt or cause the receipt to be signed by his or her representative.\n\n(6) The occupier of a waste facility who receives a controlled waste must send to the CEO within 14 days after the day on which the waste was unloaded at the waste facility —\n\n(a) a copy of the controlled waste tracking form to be kept by the occupier under subregulation (3); or\n\n(b) if subregulation (2) applies, the information to be recorded and kept by the occupier under that subregulation.\n\n(7A) Subregulations (1), (2) and (6) do not apply to the occupier of a transit facility at which a controlled waste is unloaded unless a separate controlled waste tracking form has been issued for the transportation of the controlled waste from the transit facility.\n\n(7) An occupier of a waste facility who contravenes subregulation (1), (3), (4), (5) or (6) commits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 41 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2811-13.]\n\n### Division 6 — Disposal of material containing asbestos\n\n##### 42. Terms used\n\nIn this Division, unless the contrary intention appears —\n\n  asbestos means the asbestiform variety of mineral silicates belonging to the serpentine or amphibole groups of rock‑forming minerals and includes actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite, and any mixture containing 2 or more of those;\n\n  material containing asbestos means material —\n\n(a) which contains 0.001% or more of asbestos fibres weight/weight; and\n\n(b) in which fibrous material is able to be detected by stereoscopic light microscopy at a magnification of not less than 10 times and not greater than 40 times; and\n\n(c) in which the fibrous material is able to be identified as asbestos by polarised light microscopy at a magnification of not greater than 400 times or by a method approved by the Chief Health Officer under the *Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911*;\n\nwaste facility means a waste facility of the kind referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of ***waste facility*** in regulation 2.\n\n[Regulation 42 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2813; 10 Jan 2017 p. 194.]\n\n##### 43. Disposal of material containing asbestos\n\nA person who disposes of material containing asbestos otherwise than at a waste facility commits an offence unless —\n\n(a) the material is disposed of at a place approved by the CEO under regulation 46(a); and\n\n(b) the material is disposed of in accordance with any directions given by the CEO under regulation 46(b).\n\n[Regulation 43 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2813.]\n\n##### 44. Asbestos for disposal to be separated, wrapped and labelled\n\nA person who takes material containing asbestos to a waste facility or to a place approved by the CEO under regulation 46(a) which is not —\n\n(a) separated from other material for disposal where that is reasonably practicable; and\n\n(b) wrapped or otherwise contained in a manner that prevents asbestos fibres entering the atmosphere during transportation on a road; and\n\n(c) labelled or marked with the words “CAUTION ASBESTOS” in letters not less than 50 mm high,\n\ncommits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 44 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2814.]\n\n##### 45. Duty to notify others of presence of asbestos\n\nA person who —\n\n(a) takes material containing asbestos to a waste facility or to a place approved by the CEO under regulation 46(a); and\n\n(b) does not inform the person who operates or controls the waste facility or place that the material is or contains asbestos,\n\ncommits an offence.\n\n[Regulation 45 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2814.]\n\n##### 46. CEO may approve place and manner of disposal in special cases\n\nIf satisfied that the circumstances of a particular case warrant the disposal of material containing asbestos at a place other than a waste facility, the CEO may, in writing —\n\n(a) approve a place other than a waste facility for the disposal of the material containing asbestos; and\n\n(b) give directions as to the manner in which the material containing asbestos is disposed of at a place approved under paragraph (a).\n\n[Regulation 46 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2814.]\n\n##### 47. Method of disposal\n\nA person who operates a place approved under regulation 46(a) as a place for the disposal of material containing asbestos who does not dispose of material containing asbestos in accordance with any directions given under regulation 46(b) commits an offence.\n\n## Part 4 — Miscellaneous\n\n##### 48. Responsibility of carrier\n\n(1) If a driver commits an offence against these regulations, the carrier by whom the driver is employed or engaged is taken to have committed the same offence.\n\n(2) It is a defence in proceedings against a carrier for an offence against these regulations (by the application of subregulation (1)) for the carrier to prove that —\n\n(a) the carrier issued proper instructions and took reasonable precautions to ensure compliance with these regulations; and\n\n(b) the offence was committed by the driver without the carrier’s knowledge; and\n\n(c) the carrier could not by the exercise of reasonable diligence have prevented the commission of the offence.\n\n(3) A carrier may be charged and convicted of an offence against these regulations under subregulation (1) whether or not the driver who committed the offence has been proceeded against and convicted of the offence.\n\n##### 49. Exemptions\n\n(1) The CEO may by written notice exempt a person from compliance with any of the regulations in Parts 2 and 3 if the CEO is satisfied that —\n\n(a) the circumstances in which the exemption is requested are justifiable and accountable; and\n\n(b) the exemption will not adversely affect the operation of these regulations.\n\n(2A) The CEO may give an exemption subject to conditions, or limited to circumstances, specified in the notice.\n\n(2B) Without limiting subregulation (2A), the conditions that may be specified in a notice giving an exemption include these —\n\n(a) that the person given the exemption must transport the relevant controlled waste to a specified place within a specified period;\n\n(b) that the person given the exemption must transport the relevant controlled waste in accordance with specified requirements;\n\n(c) that the person given the exemption must keep specified records relating to the amount, containment type and location of the relevant controlled waste;\n\n(d) that the person given the exemption must provide a written report to the CEO relating to the transportation and unloading of the relevant controlled waste when required to do so by the CEO.\n\n(2C) In subregulation (2B) —\n\ncontainment type, of a controlled waste, refers to the controlled waste being either bulk controlled waste or packaged controlled waste;\n\nrelevant controlled waste means the controlled waste to which an exemption given under subregulation (1) relates;\n\nspecified means specified in a notice giving an exemption under subregulation (1).\n\n(2D) If the CEO gives an exemption, the CEO must specify in the notice the period for which the exemption applies.\n\n(2E) If a condition subject to which an exemption is given is breached, the exemption ceases to have effect.\n\n(2) The CEO may by further written notice revoke or vary an exemption given under subregulation (1).\n\n[Regulation 49 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2815-16.]\n\n##### 50A. Application for exemption\n\n(1) A person may apply to the CEO in the approved form for an exemption under regulation 49.\n\n(2) Before determining the application, the CEO may require the applicant to provide any further information the CEO requires in any particular case.\n\n[Regulation 50A inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2816.]\n\n##### 50. Inspection of licences, tracking forms and tracking numbers\n\nA person required to hold a licence or have a controlled waste tracking form or number under these regulations who, when required to do so by an inspector —\n\n(a) fails to produce for inspection the licence; or\n\n(b) fails to give the controlled waste tracking form or number to the inspector,\n\ncommits an offence.\n\n##### 51. Meeting\n\n(1) The CEO may by written notice require a person who is the holder of a licence under these regulations to attend at a meeting with the CEO at a time and place specified in the notice.\n\n(2) A person who fails to comply with a requirement under subregulation (1) commits an offence.\n\n##### 52. Appeals\n\n(1) A person who is aggrieved by a decision of the CEO under regulation 5(2), 6(1), 6(2), 10(1), 12 or 18 may within 21 days after the day on which the person is notified of the decision, or within 21 days after the day on which an application under regulation 4 is taken to have been refused (by the application of regulation 5(3)), lodge with the Minister an appeal in writing setting out the grounds of the appeal.\n\n(2A) The reference in subregulation (1) to regulations 5(2), 6(1), 6(2) and 12 includes a reference to those provisions as applied by regulation 25C(5).\n\n(2) An appeal lodged under subregulation (1) is to be treated as if it were an appeal under section 102 of the Act, and for that purpose sections 102 and 106 to 110 of the Act apply as if the appeal were an appeal under section 102.\n\n[Regulation 52 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2816.]\n\n##### 53. Penalty\n\nA person who commits an offence against these regulations is liable to a penalty of $5 000.\n\n##### 54. Fees\n\n(1) The fees in Schedule 3 are the prescribed fees payable in respect of the matters specified in that Schedule.\n\n(2) The CEO may reduce, waive or refund, in whole or in part, any fee referred to in these regulations.\n\n(3) Subregulation (2) is not limited by regulation 7.\n\n[Regulation 54 inserted: Gazette 13 Apr 2007 p. 1669; amended: SL 2020/72 r. 4.]\n\n[**55-57.** Deleted in Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2816.]\n\nSchedule 1 — Controlled waste\n\n[r. 2]\n\n**Controlled waste**\n\nAcidic solutions or acids in solid form\n\nAnimal effluent or residues (including abattoir effluent, poultry, and fish processing waste)\n\nAntimony; antimony compounds\n\nArsenic; arsenic compounds\n\nAsbestos\n\nBarium compounds other than barium sulphate\n\nBasic solutions or bases in solid form\n\nBeryllium; beryllium compounds\n\nBoron compounds\n\nCadmium; cadmium compounds\n\nCeramic based fibres with physio‑chemical characteristics similar to those of asbestos\n\nChlorates\n\nClinical waste\n\nCobalt or cobalt compounds\n\nContainers or drums that are contaminated with residues of a controlled waste\n\nCopper compounds\n\nChromium compounds (hexavalent or trivalent)\n\nCyanides (inorganic)\n\nCyanides (organic) and nitriles\n\nEncapsulated, chemically‑fixed, solidified, or polymerised controlled wastes\n\nEthers\n\nFilter cake containing controlled wastes\n\nFire debris or fire washwaters\n\nFly ash other than fly ash generated from Australian coal fired power stations\n\nHalogenated organic solvents\n\nHighly odorous organic chemicals (including mercaptans and acrylates)\n\nInorganic fluorine compounds excluding calcium fluoride\n\nInorganic sulphides\n\nIsocyanate compounds\n\nLead; lead compounds\n\nMercury; mercury compounds\n\nMetal carbonyls\n\nNickel compounds\n\nNon toxic salts\n\nOrganic phosphorus compounds\n\nOrganic solvents excluding halogenated solvents\n\nOrganochlorine pesticides (OCPs)\n\nOrganohalogen compounds other than substances referred to elsewhere in this Schedule\n\nOxidising agents\n\nPerchlorates\n\nPhenols; phenol compounds including chlorophenols\n\nPhosphorus compounds other than mineral phosphates\n\nPolychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)\n\nPolychlorinated dibenzo‑furan (any congener)\n\nPolychlorinated dibenzo‑p‑dioxin (any congener)\n\nReactive chemicals\n\nReducing agents\n\nResidues from industrial waste treatment or disposal operations\n\nSelenium; selenium compounds\n\nSewage\n\nSoils contaminated with a controlled waste\n\nSurface active agents (surfactants), containing mainly organic constituents and which may contain metals and inorganic materials\n\nTannery wastes (including leather dust, ash, sludge, or flours)\n\nTellurium; tellurium compounds\n\nThallium; thallium compounds\n\nTriethylamine catalysts for setting foundry sands\n\nTyres\n\nVanadium compounds\n\nVegetable and food processing waste\n\nWaste chemical substances arising from research and development or teaching activities which substances are not identified or are new or the effects of which on human health or the environment are not known\n\nWaste containing peroxides other than hydrogen peroxide\n\nWaste from grease traps\n\nWaste from heat treatment or tempering operations containing cyanides\n\nWaste from the manufacture, formulation, or use of wood‑preserving chemicals\n\nWaste from the production, formulation, or use of biocides and phytopharmaceuticals\n\nWaste from the production, formulation, or use of inks, dyes, pigments, paints, lacquers, or varnish\n\nWaste from the production, formulation, or use of organic solvents\n\nWaste from the production, formulation, or use of photographic chemicals or processing material\n\nWaste from the production, formulation, or use of resins, latex, plasticisers, glues, or adhesives\n\nWaste from the production or preparation of pharmaceutical products\n\nWaste mineral oils unfit for their intended use\n\nWaste oil and water, or hydrocarbons and water, mixtures or emulsions\n\nWaste pharmaceuticals drugs or medicines\n\nWaste resulting from surface treatments of metals or plastics\n\nWaste tarry residues arising from refining, distillation, or pyrolytic treatment\n\nWaste, substances, or articles containing or contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated napthalenes (PCNs), polychlorinated terphenyls (PCTs), or polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs)\n\nWastes of an explosive nature not subject to any other written law\n\nWool scouring wastes\n\nZinc compounds\n\n[Schedule 1 amended: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2817-18.]\n\nSchedule 2 — Transport information\n\n[r. 25, 28, 29, 32, 35, 40, 41A, 41]\n\n[Heading inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2818.]\n\nDivision 1 — Information to be provided by driver to waste holder\n\n[Heading inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2818.]\n\nControlled waste tracking number for transportation of the controlled waste\n\nType of controlled waste\n\nAmount of controlled waste loaded onto or into vehicle or tank\n\nDate controlled waste is loaded onto or into vehicle or tank\n\n[Division 1 inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2818.]\n\nDivision 2 — Information to be provided by waste holder\n\n[Heading inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2818.]\n\nType of controlled waste\n\nAmount of controlled waste\n\nContainment type (bulk or packaged)\n\nPhysical state of controlled waste (solid, liquid or gaseous)\n\n[Division 2 inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2818.]\n\nDivision 3 — Information to be recorded on controlled waste tracking form\n\n[Heading inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2819.]\n\nWaste holder’s name or identification number\n\nWaste holder’s address\n\nName and address of waste facility\n\nType of controlled waste\n\nDate loaded onto or into vehicle or tank\n\nAmount of controlled waste\n\nType and amount of controlled waste unloaded at waste facility without occupier being present, and date of unloading\n\nType and amount of controlled waste loaded onto or into, or unloaded from, vehicle or tank at transit facility, and date of loading or unloading\n\nContainment type (bulk or packaged)\n\nPhysical state of controlled waste (solid, liquid or gaseous)\n\nDriver’s name\n\nDriver’s licence number (if licence required under these regulations)\n\nVehicle registration number\n\nTank licence number (if licence required under these regulations)\n\nCarrier’s name\n\nCarrier’s licence number\n\nVehicle or tank capacity\n\n[Division 3 inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2819.]\n\nDivision 4 — Information to be recorded by the occupier of waste facility\n\n[Heading inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2819.]\n\nName and address of waste facility\n\nDate of receipt at waste facility\n\nType of controlled waste\n\nAmount of controlled waste\n\nType of disposal, treatment or handling of controlled waste at waste facility\n\nDiscrepancies\n\n[Division 4 inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2819-20.]\n\nSchedule 3 — Fees\n\n[r. 54]\n\n[Heading inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2820.]\n\n| **Item** | **Type of fee** | **Fee   $** |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. | Licence as a carrier (r. 4(1)) | 225.00 one year   555.00 3 years   885.00 5 years |\n| 2. | Licence as a driver (r. 4(1), 20(1)) | 225.00 one year   345.00 3 years   465.00 5 years |\n| 3. | Licence for a vehicle or tank (r. 4(1)) | 225.00 one year   345.00 3 years   465.00 5 years |\n| 4. | Renewal of licence as a carrier (r. 9(1)) | 165.00 one year   495.00 3 years   825.00 5 years |\n| 5. | Renewal of licence as a driver (r. 9(1)) | 60.00 one year   180.00 3 years   300.00 5 years |\n| 6. | Renewal of licence for a vehicle or tank (r. 9(1)) | 60.00 one year   180.00 3 years   300.00 5 years |\n| 7. | Application for a condition of a licence to be changed or removed (r. 6(5)) | 105.00 |\n| 8. | Application for transfer of licence (r. 25C(2)) | 105.00 |\n| 9. | Controlled waste tracking number (r. 37(1)) — |  |\n|  | (a) issued electronically on or after 16 April 2014 and on or before 15 April 2015 | 39.50 |\n|  | (b) issued other than electronically on or after 16 April 2014 and on or before 15 April 2015 | 51.50 |\n|  | (c) issued electronically on or after 16 April 2015 and on or before 15 April 2016 | 41.00 |\n|  | (d) issued other than electronically on or after 16 April 2015 and on or before 15 April 2016 | 53.50 |\n|  | (e) issued electronically on or after 16 April 2016 and on or before 15 April 2017 | 42.50 |\n|  | (f) issued other than electronically on or after 16 April 2016 and on or before 15 April 2017 | 55.50 |\n|  | (g) issued electronically on or after 16 April 2017 | 44.00 |\n|  | (h) issued other than electronically on or after 16 April 2017 | 57.50 |\n\n\n[Schedule 3 inserted: Gazette 1 Aug 2014 p. 2820-1.]\n\n![dline]()\n\nNotes\n\nThis is a compilation of the *Environmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Regulations 2004* and includes amendments made by other written laws. For provisions that have come into operation, and for information about any reprints, see the compilation table.\n\nCompilation table\n\n| **Citation** | **Published** | **Commencement** |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| *Environmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Regulations 2004* | 1 Jul 2004 p. 2627‑73 | 1 Jul 2004 |\n| *Environmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Amendment Regulations 2007* | 13 Apr 2007 p. 1669-71 | 16 Apr 2007 (see r. 2) |\n| *Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Regulations 2008* r. 23 | 20 Jun 2008 p. 2665-84 | 1 Jul 2008 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *Environmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Amendment Regulations 2012* | 5 Apr 2012 p. 1599-600 | r. 1 and 2: 5 Apr 2012 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 6 Apr 2012 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *Environmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2013* | 14 Nov 2013 p. 5039‑40 | r. 1 and 2: 14 Nov 2013 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 18 Nov 2013 (see r. 2(b) and *Gazette* 14 Nov 2013 p. 5027) |\n| *Environmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Amendment Regulations 2014* | 1 Aug 2014 p. 2787-821 | r. 1 and 2: 1 Aug 2014 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 2 Aug 2014 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| **Reprint 1: The *Environmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Regulations 2004* as at 3 Oct 2014** (includes amendments listed above) | | |\n| *Environment Regulations Amendment (Public Health) Regulations 2016* Pt. 4 | 10 Jan 2017 p. 191-7 | 24 Jan 2017 (see r. 2(b) and *Gazette* 10 Jan 2017 p. 165) |\n| *Environmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Amendment Regulations 2020* | SL 2020/72   9 Jun 2020 | r. 1 and 2: 9 Jun 2020 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 10 Jun 2020 (see r. 2(b)) |\n\n\nDefined terms\n\n*[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]*\n\n**Defined term Provision(s)**\n\napparatus for the treatment of sewage 2\n\napproved 2\n\nasbestos 42\n\nassign 25A\n\nassignee 25A\n\nassignment time 25A\n\nbulk controlled waste 2\n\ncarrier 2\n\nclinical waste 2\n\nconsignment day 36(2)\n\ncontainment type 49(2C)\n\ncontrolled waste 2\n\ncontrolled waste tracking form 2\n\ncontrolled waste tracking form information 32A(1)\n\ncontrolled waste tracking number 2\n\ncorresponding law 2\n\nformer holder of the licence 25E(1)\n\ninterstate licence 2\n\nlicence 2, 25A\n\nmaterial containing asbestos 42\n\npackaged controlled waste 2\n\nrelevant controlled waste 49(2C)\n\nsewage 2\n\nsolid 2\n\nspecified 49(2C)\n\nspecified waste 27(1)\n\ntank 2\n\ntransit facility 2\n\ntype of controlled waste 36(1A)\n\nvehicle 2\n\nwaste facility 2, 42\n\nwaste holder 2\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Unable to assess whether the scope changed from original intent — no legislative content was provided. The page returned was a website error notice, not the text of the regulations."},"complexity_factors":["No legislative text was retrievable — the source URL returned a system error/redirect page only","Only the title and a website maintenance notice were available for analysis","Cannot assess actual regulatory complexity, cross-references, definitions, or obligations","Score of 1 reflects absence of content, not simplicity of the underlying law"],"plain_english_summary":"**No analysable content available**\n\nThe legislation text provided does not contain the actual content of the *Environmental Protection (Controlled Waste) Regulations 2004* (WA). The page retrieved is an error/redirect notice from the Western Australian legislation website, indicating the specific URL is no longer available due to system upgrades.\n\n**What we can infer from the title alone:**\n- This is a Western Australian regulation (subordinate law made under a parent Act, likely the *Environmental Protection Act 1986* (WA))\n- It deals with **controlled waste** — typically hazardous or potentially harmful waste materials (e.g. industrial chemicals, contaminated soils, asbestos) that require special handling, tracking, and disposal\n- It would likely affect **businesses that generate, transport, or receive controlled waste**, as well as **waste facility operators** and **regulators**\n\n⚠️ *A full analysis cannot be completed without the actual legislative text.*"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":7,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument expressly defines its scope and exclusions (reg 3) and concentrates on licensing, tracking, transport and unloading of the wastes listed in Schedule 1 and asbestos‑specific rules (Div 6). The compilation table shows later amendments, but the text supplied does not indicate a fundamental change to that scope — it remains focused on regulated transport, tracking and disposal with specified exceptions and CEO approvals (reg 3; Sch 1)."},"complexity_factors":["Multiple regulated actors and artefacts: separate licensing regimes for carriers, drivers and vehicles/tanks, each with differing fees and durations (rr 4–24; Sch 3).","Detailed operational duties allocated to waste holders, carriers, drivers and occupiers of waste facilities with overlapping compliance and defence clauses (rr 25–41; rr 48–51).","Controlled waste tracking regime with temporal, vehicle/tank and facility‑specific validity rules, unique numbering, fee payment and electronic/paper distinctions (rr 28, 36–38; Sch 2; Sch 3 item 9).","Record‑keeping and reporting burdens: 3‑year retention obligations and 14‑day reporting windows to the CEO after unloading (rr 25(5), 32A, 41, 41A).","Significant CEO discretion to grant, condition, change, suspend or revoke licences and to issue exemptions with conditions (rr 6, 10, 49, 50A).","Interstate interaction and recognition provisions that create defences and transfer pathways for interstate licences (rr 16, 20).","Asbestos‑specific technical definitions and prescriptive handling, labelling and disposal duties that operate alongside general rules (rr 42–47; reg 3(5)).","Large and specific list of controlled wastes (Schedule 1) creating many scope edges and potential classification disputes."],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations set mandatory licensing, training and equipment standards for carriers, drivers and vehicles that transport the types of \"controlled waste\" listed in Schedule 1 in Western Australia. They require a unique tracking form/number for each consignment, fees for tracking numbers and multi‑year record‑keeping by carriers and waste facilities (rr 11, 17, 21, 28, 36, 37; Sch 1, Sch 3).\n\nThe CEO has discretion to grant licences, impose conditions, allow exemptions, approve disposal sites and enforce offences and penalties; separate, detailed duties and labelling rules apply to asbestos (rr 6, 49, 41, 32A, 42–47)."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":6,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The legislation has grown significantly beyond simple waste transport licensing. The original 2004 framework has been substantially expanded through amendments (particularly in 2014) to include: a complete business transfer/assignment scheme (Division 5 of Part 2), detailed asbestos-specific disposal requirements (Division 6 of Part 3), complex fee structures with tiered pricing for electronic vs paper tracking numbers, and expanded exemption powers with specific record-keeping conditions. The tracking form system has evolved from simple documentation to a sophisticated multi-party reporting regime involving waste holders, carriers, drivers, and facility operators with specific time limits and data retention requirements (3-year record keeping obligations). The scope now encompasses not just transport safety but comprehensive chain-of-custody documentation and special handling protocols for specific waste types."},"complexity_factors":["Multiple overlapping licence categories: carriers, drivers, and vehicles/tanks each require separate licences with different validity periods (1, 3, or 5 years)","Extensive cross-referencing between Parts and Divisions, particularly between licensing requirements (Part 2) and transportation obligations (Part 3)","Nested exceptions and defences: numerous provisions include 'defence' clauses requiring the defendant to prove three separate elements (e.g., proper instructions, lack of knowledge, and reasonable diligence)","Complex defined terms: 25+ defined terms in regulation 2, including recursive definitions (e.g., 'waste facility' has 8 sub-paragraphs cross-referencing other legislation)","Conditional application provisions: regulation 3 contains multiple exclusions and partial applications (e.g., asbestos only partially covered, certain landfill wastes excluded)","Detailed tracking form validity rules in regulation 36 with multiple time limits (7 days for bulk, 21 days for other) and exceptions for transit facilities","Interstate recognition provisions (regulations 16, 20) creating conditional equivalence with other jurisdictions' licensing systems","Business transfer mechanics (regulations 25A-25E) creating temporary licensing status during assignment periods"],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations set up a comprehensive licensing and tracking system for transporting dangerous or hazardous waste (called 'controlled waste') on roads in Western Australia. They require anyone who transports this waste for payment to hold a specific licence, and they impose strict rules on how waste must be handled, documented, and tracked from the moment it leaves a business or facility until it reaches an approved disposal site.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- **Carriers**: Companies or individuals who transport controlled waste for profit must obtain a carrier's licence, ensure their vehicles and tanks are licensed, and only employ licensed drivers.\n- **Drivers**: People who drive vehicles carrying bulk controlled waste must hold a driver's licence and carry identification.\n- **Waste holders**: Businesses or facilities that produce or possess controlled waste (such as factories, hospitals, laboratories, or sewage treatment plants) must ensure they only give waste to licensed carriers and provide accurate information about the waste.\n- **Waste facility operators**: Operators of landfills or treatment facilities must record details of received waste and report to the government.\n\n**Key requirements:**\n- **Paperwork trail**: Every load of controlled waste must be accompanied by a 'controlled waste tracking form' (a document with a unique number) that follows the waste from collection to disposal.\n- **Strict rules for asbestos**: Special regulations require asbestos to be wrapped, labelled, and disposed of only at approved facilities, with clear notification to operators.\n- **Penalties**: Breaches can result in fines up to $5,000.\n- **Exemptions**: The CEO of the Department of Environment can grant exemptions in special circumstances.\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThese rules protect public health and the environment by ensuring hazardous materials—like chemicals, medical waste, asbestos, and industrial by-products—are handled safely and can be traced if something goes wrong. The tracking system creates accountability and prevents illegal dumping."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/environmental-protection-controlled-waste-regulations-2004","history":"/api/acts/environmental-protection-controlled-waste-regulations-2004/history","analysis":"/api/acts/environmental-protection-controlled-waste-regulations-2004/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/environmental-protection-controlled-waste-regulations-2004/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/environmental-protection-controlled-waste-regulations-2004/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/environmental-protection-controlled-waste-regulations-2004/documents"}}