AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENT TO THE GARBAGE REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 9 of 1976

	This regulation will amend the Garbage Regulations made under the Building and Services Ordinance 1924-1976.

	When the Garbage Regulations were amended in December 1974 to permit the introduction of the present garbage arrangements for occupiers of commercial premises, increases were effected to various penalties relating to hitherto prevalent breaches of the regulation dealing with unhealthy modes of disposal of garbage.

	It was later discovered that the penalties prescribed were in excess of those permitted to be prescribed in regulations made under the then Building and Services Ordinance 1924-1968.

	The Building and Services Ordinance has now been amended to permit the increased penalties to be prescribed.  The proposed regulation validates those penalties.  It does not validate them retrospectively.

	The A.C.T. Legislative Assembly has agreed to the regulation.