Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) (Waigani Convention) Regulations 1999
8Notice about competent authorities and acceptable languages
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8 Notice about competent authorities and acceptable languages
(1) The Minister may publish a notice on the Department’s website, setting out, for a Party: (a) the authority of the Party that is the Competent Authority for the Convention, and the address of that authority; and (b) the language that is acceptable to the Party.
Note: For Competent Authority, see Articles 1 and 5 of the Convention.
(2) For that notice, the Minister may rely on any information supplied by a Party from time to time, and is not obliged to verify that the information is correct.