Waste Reduction and Recycling and Other Legislation Amendment Regulation 2025

1Short title

This regulation may be cited as the Waste Reduction and Recycling and Other Legislation Amendment Regulation 2025.

2Regulation amended

This part amends the Nature Conservation (Animals) Regulation 2020.

3Amendment of s 163 (Restrictions on grant of permit to prevent damage or loss)

(1)Section 163, heading, after ‘loss’—
insert—

by animals other than flying-foxes

(2)Section 163(1), ‘animal.’—
omit, insert—

animal other than a flying-fox.

(3)Section 163(1A) and (3)—
omit.

4Amendment of s 164 (Restrictions on grant of permit to prevent damage or loss by flying-foxes)

Section 164(5)—
omit.

5Amendment of s 167 (Killing dependent flying-foxes)

Section 167(3)—
omit.

6Amendment of s 171 (Way animals to be taken)

Section 171(4)—
omit.

7Amendment of s 171A (Way flying-foxes to be taken)

(1)Section 171A, heading, after ‘taken’—
insert—

under damage mitigation permit to prevent damage or loss

(2)Section 171A(2)—
omit.

8Omission of s 430 (Applications for damage mitigation permits made, but not decided, on 1 July 2026)

Section 430—
omit.

9Amendment of sch 1, s 22 (Invertebrates)

Schedule 1, section 22—
insert—

Euastacus mirangudjin

orange-bellied crayfish

10Regulation amended

This part amends the Nature Conservation (Plants) Regulation 2020.

11Amendment of sch 1, s 9 (Plants)

(1)Schedule 1, section 9, entries for Homoranthus cummingii and Zieria hydroscopica—
omit.

(2)Schedule 1, section 9—
insert—

Cycas cupida

Hymenasplenium perriei

Lepidagathis royenii

12Amendment of sch 1, s 13 (Plants)

Schedule 1, section 13—
insert—

Paramapania parvibractea

Torenia polygonoides

13Amendment of sch 1, s 17 (Plants)

(1)Schedule 1, section 17—
omit the following entries—

•Acacia purpureopetala

•Corchorus subargenteus

•Cycas cupida

•Daviesia quoquoversus

•Hymenasplenium perriei

•Lepidagathis royenii

•Paramapania parvibractea

•Torenia polygonoides

(2)Schedule 1, section 17—
insert—

Homoranthus cummingii

Zieria hydroscopica

14Amendment of sch 1, s 21 (Plants)

Schedule 1, section 21—
insert—

Acacia purpureopetala

Corchorus subargenteus

Daviesia quoquoversus

15Regulation amended

This part amends the Waste Reduction and Recycling Regulation 2023.

16Amendment of s 6 (Types of exempt waste for definition waste disposal site—Act, s 8A)

(1)Section 6(1)(d)—
omit, insert—

(d)coal power station ash.

(2)Section 6(2), ‘and (d)’—
omit.

17Amendment of s 8 (Exempt waste—Act, s 26)

(1)Section 8(1)(e)—
omit, insert—

(e)coal power station ash;

(2)Section 8(3), ‘30 June 2026’—
omit, insert—

30 June 2030

(3)Section 8(4)—
omit.

(4)Section 8(5)—
renumber as section 8(4).

18Amendment of s 28 (Banned plastic shopping bags—Act, s 99B)

Section 28(1)(a), ‘35 microns’—
omit, insert—

35µm

19Amendment of sch 13 (Dictionary)

Schedule 13—
insert—

coal power station ash means ash that is produced in a power station in Queensland by a furnace fired from a fuel source that—

(a)consists of at least 90% coal; and

(b)otherwise consists of biomass, biosolids or other fuel to support ignition.

Examples of ash—

•ash in gas in the flue of the furnace

•ash formed at the bottom, or on the walls, of the furnace