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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION REGULATIONS 2021 (SR NO 47 OF 2021) - REG 63

Authorised to receive industrial waste

For the purposes of paragraph (e) of the definition of authorised to receive industrial waste in section 3(1) of the Act, a person, place or premises is authorised to receive a type of industrial waste—

        (a)     if there is a declaration of use in effect for that type of waste that applies to the place or premises; or

        (b)     if the industrial waste is received in accordance with specifications acceptable to the Authority set out in a determination made under regulation 5; or

        (c)     in relation to trade waste, for discharge or deposit into the sewerage system of a water corporation in accordance with a trade waste agreement under the Water Act 1989 ; or

        (d)     in relation to manure, including any mixture of manure and biodegradable animal bedding from agricultural sources, for discharge or deposit to land of less than 20 m 3 per month; or

        (e)     in relation to reclaimed wastewater, for use at a place or premises identified in a permit for an activity set out in item 22 (A14—Reclaimed wastewater supply or use) in the Table in Schedule 1 or that meets the description of a class of premises in that permit as a place or premises where the reclaimed wastewater can be used, if the wastewater

              (i)     is intended to be used immediately; and

              (ii)     is used for the purposes and circumstances set out in the permit; or

        (f)     in relation to biosolids, for use at a place or premises identified in a permit for an activity set out in item 23 (A15—Biosolids supply or use) in the Table in Schedule 1 or that meets the description of a class of premises in that permit as a place or premises where the biosolids can be used, if the waste—

              (i)     is intended to be used immediately; and

              (ii)     is used for the purposes and circumstances set out in the permit; or

        (g)     in relation to reportable priority waste (transport) (other than soil), for use at a place or premises identified in a permit for an activity set out in item 24 (A16—Supply or use of reportable priority waste) in the Table in Schedule 1 or that meets the description of a class of premises in that permit as a place or premises where the waste can be used, if the waste—

              (i)     is intended to be used immediately; and

              (ii)     is used for the purposes and circumstances set out in the permit; or

        (h)     in relation to not more than 5 m 3 of industrial waste that is not priority waste, where receipt of that waste at the place or premises is not a permission activity and not for application of the waste to land; or

              (i)     in relation to not more than 5 m 3 of the following types of priority waste, where receipt of that waste at the place or premises is not a permission activity—

              (i)     timber treated with hazardous substances, including sawdust in column 3 of item 59 of the Table in Schedule 5;

              (ii)     tyres, including tyre pieces greater than 250 mm in size measured in any dimension, in column 3 of item 104 of the Table in Schedule 5;

              (iii)     e-waste in column 3 of item 108 of the Table in Schedule 5, excluding batteries; or

        (j)     in relation to waste tyres, for use in accordance with specifications acceptable to the Authority set out in a determination made under regulation 5 for the purposes of item 14 (A09b—Waste tyre storage—small) in the Table in Schedule 1; or

        (k)     for receipt at a laboratory for the purposes of analysis; or

        (l)     in relation to greenhouse gas substances, for injection as part of greenhouse gas sequestration operations carried out in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Geological Sequestration Act 2008 ; or

        (m)     if the waste transported to the place or premises may be lawfully exported from Australia directly from that place or premises.



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