Environment Protection Regulations 2021
44Waste levy activity
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44 Waste levy activity
(1) For the purposes of the definitions of liable person and premises subject to the waste levy in section 144 of the Act, a prescribed levy activity is an activity set out in item 1
(A01—Reportable priority waste management) or 7 (A05a—Landfills—excluding municipal landfills servicing <5000 people) in the Table in Schedule 1.
Section 146 of the Act authorises the Minister to waive the requirement to pay a waste levy for certain purposes.
(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply—
(a) in the case of an activity set out in item 1 (A01—Reportable priority waste management) or 7 (A05a—Landfills—excluding municipal landfills servicing <5000 people) in the Table in Schedule 1, if the activity takes place at a privately owned landfill that only receives wastes that consist of substances that were owned by the holder of the permission before they became wastes; or
(b) in the case of an activity set out in item 1 (A01—Reportable priority waste management) in the Table in Schedule 1, to the extent that the activity relates to wastes received other than for disposal.