64LPayment of refund amounts to material recovery facility

64L Payment of refund amounts to material recovery facility operators (1) The scheme coordinator agreement may require the scheme coordinator to pay a material recovery facility operator a refund amount (a processing refund) for containers collected by a waste collection service and processed by the operator for reuse or recycling. (2) The waste manager may determine a way (a processing refund protocol) to work out the processing refund payable to the material recovery facility operator. (3) A processing refund protocol may make provision for the following: (a) material recovery facility operators or classes of material recovery facility operators who are entitled to claim a processing refund; (b) the class of containers for which a processing refund is payable; (c) any other circumstances in which a processing refund is payable; (d) the way in which a claim for a processing refund must be made by a material recovery facility operator; (e) the assessment of claims for processing refunds; (f) reporting and keeping records; (g) a process for resolving disputes about processing refunds. (4) A processing refund protocol is a disallowable instrument. (5) A processing refund is not payable to a material recovery facility operator unless a processing refund protocol is in force in relation to the processing refund.

Network operator agreements Division 10A.4 (6) A regulation may prohibit— (a) the landfill disposal of a container in relation to which a claim for a processing refund has been made by a material recovery facility operator; and (b) a material recovery facility operator making a claim for a processing refund in relation to a container that has been disposed of to landfill.