23Circumstances in which operating licence must be refused

23 Circumstances in which operating licence must be refused

For the purposes of section 74(4)(d) of the Act, it is a prescribed circumstance if, in the case of an application for an operating licence that specifies an activity set out in item 7 (A05a—Landfills—excluding municipal landfills servicing <5000 people) in the Table in Schedule 1, the activity that is the subject of the application involves the receipt of any of the following types or classes of waste at the proposed landfill site—

(a) liquid waste;

(b) pneumatic automotive tyres unless the tyres have been shredded into pieces not exceeding 250 millimetres in size measured in any dimension;

(c) wastes prohibited for disposal to landfill by a national environment protection measure;

(d) e-waste, other than smoke detectors and e‑waste that is dispersed in negligible quantities in wastes not otherwise prohibited from disposal at a landfill;

(e) used oil filters;

(f) rigid steel or plastic containers with an original volume equal to or greater than 200 litres contaminated with reportable priority waste (transport).

Section 67 of the Act prevents the Authority from issuing or granting a permission in relation to a landfill site for receiving Category A waste.