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Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011
sec.249Restriction on giving compliance notice
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### sec.249 Restriction on giving compliance notice
This section applies if the chief executive gives a person a show cause notice about a contravention of a prescribed provision.
The chief executive may give the person a compliance notice about the contravention only if the chief executive—
has considered all submissions made by the person about the show cause notice within the period stated in that notice; and
still believes it is appropriate to give the compliance notice.
Subsection (4) applies if the contravention of a prescribed provision is a contravention of section 57 (2) or (3) .
The chief executive may give the person a compliance notice about the contravention only if the chief executive is satisfied that the waste disposal site where the weighbridge is required to be installed is not planned to be closed within 1 year after the requirement in section 57 (2) or (3) started to apply to the operator of the site.
s 249 amd 2013 No. 6 s 44 ; 2019 No. 2 s 11
(sec.249-ssec.1) This section applies if the chief executive gives a person a show cause notice about a contravention of a prescribed provision.
(sec.249-ssec.2) The chief executive may give the person a compliance notice about the contravention only if the chief executive— has considered all submissions made by the person about the show cause notice within the period stated in that notice; and still believes it is appropriate to give the compliance notice.
(sec.249-ssec.3) Subsection (4) applies if the contravention of a prescribed provision is a contravention of section 57 (2) or (3) .
(sec.249-ssec.4) The chief executive may give the person a compliance notice about the contravention only if the chief executive is satisfied that the waste disposal site where the weighbridge is required to be installed is not planned to be closed within 1 year after the requirement in section 57 (2) or (3) started to apply to the operator of the site.
- (a) has considered all submissions made by the person about the show cause notice within the period stated in that notice; and
- (b) still believes it is appropriate to give the compliance notice.