Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment Act 2011

No. 6, 2011

An Act to amend the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005, and for related purposes

[Assented to 22 March 2011]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

This Act may be cited as the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment Act 2011.

(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provision(s)	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	22 March 2011
2. Schedule 1	The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.	23 March 2011

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

(2) Any information in Column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005

1 After subsection 19(3)

Insert:

(3A) If the WELS standard requires or permits the products to be registered, the WELS standard may require either or both of the following:

(a) that the products comply with requirements relating to plumbing that are contained in a specified document, as in force from time to time (including the Plumbing Code of Australia, or an Act or regulations made by a State or Territory, for example);

(b) that a specified type of person or body certifies that the products comply with requirements relating to plumbing that are contained in a specified document, as in force from time to time (including the Plumbing Code of Australia, or an Act or regulations made by a State or Territory, for example).

2 Paragraph 29(c)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(i) a minimum water efficiency or minimum general performance requirement that the product is required to satisfy by the WELS standard for products of that kind; or

(ii) a requirement under subsection 19(3A).

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

Senate on 29 September 2010

House of Representatives on 21 February 2011]

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