2016-03-07 General Committee - Item 1 - Draft Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan - ATTACHMENT 1

Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011
Chapter 6 Strategic planning for waste reduction and recycling
Part 2 Local government strategic planning for waste
[s 127]
127     Amendment of plan
       (1)   A local government may adopt an amendment of a waste
             reduction and recycling plan having effect in its local
             government area if it considers the amendment to         be
             appropriate, having regard to—
             (a)  changing waste reduction and recycling opportunities;
                  and
             (b)  changing circumstances in which the plan operates; and
             (c)  other matters arising from a review of the plan as
                  required under this part; and
             (d)  anything else the local government considers relevant.
       (2)   A local government may not adopt an amendment of a waste
             reduction and recycling plan having effect in 2 or more local
             government areas unless all the local governments adopt the
             amendment.

Division 3              Chief executive action to prepare
                        waste reduction and recycling plan
                        for local government

128     Chief executive may prepare waste reduction and
        recycling plan
       (1)   This  section  applies  if, in  contravention  of a    local
             government’s waste reduction and recycling plan obligation,
             the local government does not have in place a waste reduction
             and recycling plan addressing an aspect of waste reduction
             and recycling relevant to the local government.
       (2)   The chief executive may prepare a waste reduction and
             recycling plan for the local government to address the aspect.
       (3)   Before preparing the plan, the chief executive must give
             notice to the local government stating the following—
             (a)  the chief executive’s intention to prepare the plan;
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