30Payment of refund amounts

30 Payment of refund amounts

30 Payment of refund amounts

(1) For the purposes of section 42(3)(a) of the Act, a refund amount may be paid to a person—

(a) by electronic funds transfer to an account nominated by the person, or

(b) by coupons redeemable for cash, goods or services, or

(c) under a rewards scheme, or

(d) in another way determined by the EPA by order published in the Gazette.

(2) A collection point operator is guilty of an offence if the operator—

(a) is required to pay a refund amount by electronic funds transfer to an account nominated by a person, and

(b) fails to cause payment of the refund amount to be made to the person within 3 business days after the container is counted by a machine used by the collection point operator to count, verify and sort containers.

Maximum penalty—

(a) for a corporation—100 penalty units, or

(b) otherwise—50 penalty units.

(3) (Repealed)

cl 30: Ins 2017 (650), Sch 1 [10]. Am 2023 (53), Sch 1[15]–[17]; 2025 No 48, Sch 3.15.