Queensland Numbered Acts

WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING (WASTE LEVY) AMENDMENT ACT 2019 - SECT 7

7 Amendment of s 104 (Illegal dumping of waste provision)

Section 104 (1) , penalty—
omit, insert—

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) if the offence involves depositing a volume of less than 2,500L of waste—400 penalty units; or

(b) if the offence involves depositing a volume of 2,500L or more of waste—whichever is the greater of the following amounts—

(i) 1,000 penalty units;

(ii) a fine that is twice the waste levy amount that would have been payable, when the waste was dumped, by the operator of a levyable waste disposal site if the waste had been delivered to the site.