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Recycling and Waste Reduction (Product Stewardship—Televisions and Computers) Amendment (Imported Products) Rules 2021

I, Trevor Evans, Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management, make the following rules.

Dated 19/10/2021   

Trevor Evans

Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Recycling and Waste Reduction (Product Stewardship—Televisions and Computers) Rules 2021

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Recycling and Waste Reduction (Product Stewardship—Televisions and Computers) Amendment (Imported Products) Rules 2021.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument 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

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1. The whole of this instrument

The day after this instrument is registered.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

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

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Recycling and Waste Reduction (Product Stewardship—Televisions and Computers) Rules 2021

1  Section 4

Insert:

import declaration has the same meaning as in the Customs Act 1901.

2  Section 4

Insert:

imported: a product is imported at a time if, at that time, the product:

  (a) is the subject of an import declaration; and

 (b) is entered for home consumption under subsection 68(3A) of the Customs Act 1901 in respect of that import declaration.

Note: Section 4A provides for certain changes of import declarations not to be taken into account for certain purposes.

3  After section 4

Insert:

4A  Use of information in import declarations

  For the purposes of determining in this instrument whether a product was imported in a financial year, a change made to an import declaration must not be considered if:

 (a) the change is made after 31 October of the next following financial year in which the import declaration was made; and

 (b) the change:

 (i) reduces the number of television or computer products specified in the declaration; or

 (ii) reduces the converted weight of any kind of television or computer product specified in the declaration.