13Reporting requirements—product stewardship organisations

13 Reporting requirements—product stewardship organisations

13 Reporting requirements—product stewardship organisations

(1) A product stewardship organisation must give the following to the regulator—

(a) an annual report within 3 months of the end of the financial year,

(b) a quarterly report within 3 months of the end of each quarter.

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—1,000 penalty units and, for a continuing offence, a further 100 penalty units for each day the offence continues, or

(b) otherwise—4,000 penalty units and, for a continuing offence, a further 400 penalty units for each day the offence continues.

(2) A report must—

(a) be given in the form and way approved by the regulator, and

(b) include information about the performance of the product stewardship organisation by reference to the performance targets under the stewardship administration agreement, and

(c) include other information prescribed by the regulations.

(3) Information given to the regulator under this section may be taken into consideration by the regulator and used for this Act.

(4) Without limiting subsection (3), the information is admissible in evidence in a prosecution of the product stewardship organisation for an offence against this Act or the regulations, whether or not the information may incriminate the product stewardship organisation.

(5) The regulations may prescribe information to be included in a report by reference to the following—

(a) a brand owner,

(b) a regulated product or a substance recovered from a regulated product,

(c) a product stewardship organisation,

(d) an activity,

(e) an industry.

(6) A product stewardship organisation must publish the annual report on the product stewardship organisation’s website within 3 months of the end of each financial year.

(7) In this section—