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Waste Minimisation Act 2008

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86: Regulations in relation to records, information, and reports

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"Rules about keeping and sharing information to help manage waste"

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The Governor-General can make rules about records, information, and reports. You need to know that these rules can require people to keep and provide information. This information helps calculate how much levy is payable. The Minister recommends these rules. The Minister can also make rules that require people to keep records and provide information to help with waste management and minimisation. This information is used to measure progress, report on the environment, and assess performance. You will have to provide records and information to the Secretary if you are the operator of a disposal facility, a certain type of person, or a territorial authority. The rules can also say how and when you must provide this information. Before the Minister recommends making these rules, they must get advice from the Waste Advisory Board, consult with people who may be affected, and think about the costs and benefits. The Minister must also consult the Government Statistician for some rules. You can find out more about how these rules are published by looking at Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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86Regulations in relation to records, information, and reports

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations for 1 or more of the following purposes:

    Information from operator of disposal facility

  2. requiring the operator of a disposal facility to keep, and provide to the Secretary and any appointed levy collector, records and information to enable amounts of levy payable by the operator to be accurately calculated:

      1. Information from any class of person

    1. requiring any class of person to keep, and provide to the Secretary, records and information to assist the Secretary to compile statistics in order to—
      1. measure progress in waste management and minimisation:
        1. report on the state of New Zealand’s environment:
          1. assess New Zealand’s performance in waste minimisation and decreasing waste disposal:
            1. identify improvements needed in infrastructure for waste minimisation:

              2. Information from territorial authority

            2. requiring a territorial authority to keep, and provide to the Secretary each year, records and information about the territorial authority’s—
              1. spending of levy money; and
                1. performance in achieving waste minimisation with the services, facilities, and activities provided or funded in accordance with its waste management and minimisation plan; and
                  1. performance as measured against any performance standards set by the Minister under section 49:

                    2. Miscellaneous

                  2. prescribing the form and manner in which, and the times at which, the records and information referred to in paragraph (a), (b), or (c) must be kept or provided:
                    1. prescribing requirements for a person to verify that records and information are correct before providing them under paragraph (a), (b), or (c):
                      1. providing for any other matter contemplated by this Part.

                        1. Before recommending the making of regulations under subsection (1), the Minister must—

                        2. obtain and consider the advice of the Waste Advisory Board; and
                          1. be satisfied that there has been adequate consultation with persons or organisations who may be significantly affected by the regulations; and
                            1. consider the costs and benefits expected from implementing the regulations.

                              1. Before recommending the making of regulations under subsection (1)(b), the Minister must also consult the Government Statistician.

                              2. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

                              Notes
                              • Section 86(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).