Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HAZARDOUS WASTE (REGULATION OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS) ACT 1989 - SECT 36

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a person contravenes one or more of the following provisions in relation to hazardous waste:

  (i)   subsection   33A(1), (2) or (3) (import of hazardous waste--basic contravention);

  (ii)   subsection   33B(1), (2) or (3) (import of hazardous waste--injury or damage);

  (iii)   subsection   33C(1), (2) or (3) (export of hazardous waste--basic contravention);

  (iv)   subsection   33D(1), (2) or (3) (export of hazardous waste--injury or damage);

  (v)   subsection   33E(1), (2), (3) or (4) (transit of hazardous waste--basic contravention);

  (vi)   subsection   33F(1), (2), (3) or (4) (transit of hazardous waste--injury or damage); and

  (b)   the Minister is satisfied that the contravention resulted in the waste causing significant injury or damage to human beings or the environment;

the Minister may, in writing, order the person to take such steps as the Minister thinks proper to remedy or mitigate the damage.

  (2)   Without otherwise limiting subsection   (1), the Minister must not, under that subsection, order the person to pay compensation.