Trans‑Tasman Mutual Recognition Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory Container Deposit Scheme) Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated: 13 December 2023

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Ed Husic

Minister for Industry and Science

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Repeal of this instrument

5 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Trans‑Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997

1  Name

  This instrument is the Trans‑Tasman Mutual Recognition Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory Container Deposit Scheme) Regulations 2023.

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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 45 of the Trans‑Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997.

4  Repeal of this instrument

  This instrument is repealed on the day after it commences.

5  Schedules

  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Trans‑Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997

1  Clause 11 of Schedule 2

Before “Firearms and other prohibited or offensive weapons”, insert:

Container deposit scheme

The following laws:

(a) Part 2 of the Environment Protection (Beverage Containers and Plastic Bags) Act 2011;

(b) all other provisions of that Act, to the extent that they relate to the container deposit scheme established by that Part;

(c) regulations or other instruments made under that Act, to the extent that they relate to that scheme