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Waste Recycling and Processing Corporation Act 2001.

Country/Territory
Australia
Territorial subdivision
New South Wales
Document type
Legislation
Date
2001 (2005)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to establish the Waste Recycling and Processing Corporation as a statutory State owned corporation to exercise certain functions in relation to waste; to dissolve the Waste Recycling and Processing Service of New South Wales; to make consequential amendments to other legislation; and for other purposes.
Subject
Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Institution Recycling/reuse Waste management Research Waste disposal
Geographical area
Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific
Abstract

This Act establishes the Waste Recycling and Processing Corporation as a statutory State owned corporation to exercise certain functions in relation to waste. The principal functions of the Corporation are: (a) to establish, maintain and operate waste facilities, secondary resource facilities and related facilities, and (b) to conduct businesses or provide services relating to waste, and secondary resource recovery, and (c) to provide waste management services, secondary resource management services and related services, and (d) to research, develop and implement alternative technologies for managing waste, and (e) to trade in waste and secondary resources. The Act provides for the internal structure and organization of the Corporation and for the dissolution of the Waste Recycling and Processing Service and, on the dissolution of the Waste Recycling and Processing Service, the Corporation is taken for all purposes, including the rules of private international law, to be a continuation of, and the same legal entity as, the Waste Recycling and Processing Service.

Full text
English
Website
www.austlii.edu.au

References - Legislation

Repealed by

Waste Recycling and Processing Corporation (Authorised Transaction) Act 2010.

Legislation | Australia | 2010 (2017)

Keyword: Institution, Recycling/reuse, Waste management, Research, Waste disposal

Source: FAO, FAOLEX