Waste Management and Pollution Control Act
Compliance Guidelines
- Compliance Guidelines (pdf 85Kb).
The Guidelines describe how compliance with the Waste Management and Pollution Control Act should be achieved. The Guidelines are intended to provide greater certainty and predictability to the compliance process and thereby assist industry to comply with the legislation and enable the community to better understand compliance outcomes.
The Guidelines emphasise a range of methods that will be used to achieve compliance including:
- Cooperative action
- Legislative action
- Court action
Prosecution is discretionary and will be used where it is in the public interest.
