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Waste Minimisation Act 2008

Product stewardship - Monitoring of accredited schemes

20: Monitoring of accredited schemes

You could also call this:

"Checking how well waste reduction schemes are working"

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The Secretary can check how well an accredited scheme is working. You can think of the Secretary like a supervisor who makes sure things are done correctly. The Secretary can also ask the scheme manager to pay for the cost of checking the scheme.

The scheme manager has to pay for this as a charge, and they have to pay it in a specific way. This charge is like a fee that the scheme manager must pay to the Secretary. The Secretary gets to decide how the scheme manager pays this charge.

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Part 2Product stewardship
Monitoring of accredited schemes

20Monitoring of accredited schemes

  1. The Secretary may—

  2. monitor the performance of an accredited scheme; and
    1. recover the costs of doing so from the scheme manager (on behalf of the scheme) as a charge in the prescribed manner.