Australian Capital Territory

LITTER regulations
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Updated as at 18 December 1998
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Regulation
	1.	Citation
	2.	Commencement
	3.	Interpretation
	4.	Prescribed penalties
schedule
prescribed penalties

1. 	Citation
	These Regulations may be cited as the Litter Regulations.1
2. 	Commencement
	These Regulations commence on the day on which they are notified in the Gazette.
3. 	Interpretation
	In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—
“Act” means the Litter Act 1977.

4. 	Prescribed penalties
	For the purposes of sections 10, 10A, 10D and 11A of the Act the prescribed penalty for an alleged littering offence is the penalty specified in the Schedule opposite the reference to the provision of the Act creating that littering offence.

	SCHEDULE	Regulation 4
PRESCRIBED PENALTIES
Provision	Penalty	
Section 3, paragraph (a) of the penalty provision		$200	
Section 3, paragraph (b) of the penalty provision		$150	
Section 3A		$500	
Section 4		$200	
Section 5		$500	
Subsection 7A (1)		$500	
Subsection 7B (1)		$100	
NOTES
1.	The Litter Regulations (in force under the Litter Act 1977) as shown in this reprint comprise Subordinate Law No. 42, 1993 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
2.	The Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 (No. 51, 1996) authorises the Parliamentary Counsel in preparing a law for republication, to make certain editorial and other formal amendments in accordance with current legislative drafting practice.  Those amendments make no change in the law.  Amendments made pursuant to that Act do not appear in the Table of Amendments but details may be obtained on request from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office. 
Table of Subordinate Laws
Regulation
No.	Date of making	Date of 
notification 
in Gazette	Date of 
commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions	

No. 42, 1993	25 Oct 1993	8 Nov 1993	8 Nov 1993		
No. 39, 1998
	16 Dec 1998	18 Dec 1998	18 Dec 1998	—	

Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended     rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision	How affected

Schedule	am. No. 39, 1998