This instrument is the Recycling and Waste Reduction (Fees) Amendment (Export of Regulated Waste Material Fees and Other Measures) Rules 2024.

(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	1 July 2024.	1 July 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Recycling and Waste Reduction (Fees) Rules 2020

1 After Part 1

Insert:

Part 1A—Fees relating to the export of regulated waste material

4A Fees relating to the export of regulated waste material

(1) This section is made for the purposes of section 155 of the Act.

(2) The fee for performing a function referred to in column 1 of an item in the following table:

(a) is the amount specified in column 2 of the item; and

(b) is due and payable at the time specified in column 3 of the item; and

Fees relating to the export of waste material
Item	Column 1 Function	Column 2 Amount	Column 3 Due and payable	Column 4 Person
1	Consideration of an application made under section 25 of the Act for an exemption from one or more provisions of Chapter 2 of the Act or rules made for the purposes of that Chapter	$13,960	At the time the application is made	The person who makes the application
2	Consideration of an application made under section 33 of the Act for an export licence	$19,090	At the time the application is made	The person who makes the application
3	Consideration of an application made under section 38 of the Act for renewal of an export licence (other than for an application to which subsection (3) applies)	$13,540	At the time the application is made	The person who makes the application
4	Consideration of an application made under section 42 of the Act to vary an export licence	$13,540	At the time the application is made	The person who makes the application

(3) The fee under item 3 of the table in subsection (2) for consideration of an application for renewal of an export licence is not payable if:

(a) the application relates to a waste paper and cardboard export licence (within the meaning of the Recycling and Waste Reduction (Export—Waste Paper and Cardboard) Rules 2024) that was granted before 1 July 2026; and

(b) the application is the first application made for renewal of the licence; and

(c) the information mentioned in subsection 8(2) of those rules was not included in the application made for the initial grant of the licence.

(4) A fee prescribed by an item of the table in subsection (2) must accompany the application being considered.

Note: Paragraph 172(1)(e) of the Act does not require the fee to accompany the application if the fee is waived.

2 Section 8 (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

8 Refund, remission or waiver of fees and penalties

3 At the end of subsection 8(2)

Add:

; or (c) waive the whole or part of a fee, or a penalty for late payment of a fee, that is payable under this instrument.

4 Subsection 9(2) (at the end of the table)

Add:

A person who applies under section 8 for the whole or part of a fee, or a penalty for late payment of a fee, to be waived

A decision by the Minister under that section to refuse to waive the whole or part of the fee, or the penalty for late payment of a fee

5 At the end of the instrument

Add:

Part 4—Application, saving and transitional provisions

10 Amendments made by the Recycling and Waste Reduction (Fees) Amendment (Export of Regulated Waste Material Fees and Other Measures) Rules 2024

Part 1A, as inserted by Schedule 1 to the Recycling and Waste Reduction (Fees) Amendment (Export of Regulated Waste Material Fees and Other Measures) Rules 2024, applies in relation to an application under section 25, 33, 38 or 42 of the Act made on or after 1 July 2024.