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Mutual Recognition Legislation Amendment (Tasmanian 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

1 Name

This instrument is the Mutual Recognition Legislation Amendment (Tasmanian 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.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The later of: (a) the start of the day after this instrument is registered; and (b) immediately after the commencement of Part 2 of the Container Refund Scheme Act 2022 (Tas.). However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 47 of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992.

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This instrument is repealed on the day after it commences.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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Mutual Recognition Act 1992

1 At the end of Schedule 2

Add:

38 Both of the following:

(a) the Container Refund Scheme Act 2022 (Tas.);

(b) regulations or other instruments made under that Act, to the extent that they relate to the container deposit scheme established by Part 2 of that Act.