Title: Plastic Shopping Bags (Waste Avoidance)Regulations 2008
Subject: Plastic Shopping Bags (WasteAvoidance) Act 2008
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: public
Document comments: 319

No 319 of 2008 published in Gazette 18.12.2008 p 5702

Plastic Shopping Bags (Waste Avoidance) Regulations 2008

South Australia
Plastic Shopping Bags (Waste Avoidance) Regulations 2008
under the Plastic Shopping Bags (Waste Avoidance) Act 2008

Contents
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Interpretation
4	Prescribed day (section 3)
5	Prescribed requirements for notice (section 4)

1—Short title
These regulations may be cited as the Plastic Shopping Bags (Waste Avoidance) Regulations 2008.
2—Commencement
These regulations will come into operation on the day on which the Plastic Shopping Bags (Waste Avoidance) Act 2008 comes into operation.
3—Interpretation
In these regulations—
Act means the Plastic Shopping Bags (Waste Avoidance) Act 2008.
4—Prescribed day (section 3)
For the purposes of the definition of prescribed day in section 3 of the Act, 4 May 2009 is prescribed.
5—Prescribed requirements for notice (section 4)
	(1)	Pursuant to paragraph (b) of section 4(1) of the Act, a retailer to whom that section applies must display, in a prominent position at each point of sale in the retailer's premises, a notice that—
	(a)	subject to subregulation (2), is not less than 95mm in height and 150mm in width; and
	(b)	includes the following statement in legible letters:
The SA Government is banning the supply of lightweight checkout style plastic shopping bags from 4 May 2009.
Alternative shopping bags are available from this retail outlet.
	(2)	The requirement for a notice to be not less than the size specified in subregulation (1)(a) does not apply in relation to a notice in electronic form.
Note—
As required by section 10AA(2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1978, the Minister has certified that, in the Minister's opinion, it is necessary or appropriate that these regulations come into operation as set out in these regulations.
Made by the Governor
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
on 18 December 2008
No 319 of 2008
EPCS07/0010