Eco-Contribution Act (Amendment of First Schedule)

L.N. 341 of 2005

ECO-CONTRIBUTION ACT, 2004

(ACT NO. XII OF 2004)

Eco-Contribution Act (Amendment of First Schedule)

(No. 3) Regulations, 2005

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 13(1)(c) of the Eco-

Contribution Act, hereinafter referred to as “the Act”, the Minister for

Rural Affairs and the Environment, with the concurrence of the Prime

Minister and Minister of Finance, has made the following regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Eco-Contribution Act

(Amendment of First Schedule) (No. 3) Regulations, 2005, and they

shall be read and construed as one with the First Schedule to the Eco-

Contribution Act, as amended by the Eco-Contribution Act (Amendment

of First Schedule) (No.2) Regulations, 2005, which First Schedule is

hereinafter referred to in these regulations as “the Schedule”.

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into

force on the 1 st September, 2005.

Immediately after the words “Bags for the conveyance of

goods, of degradable plastic,” under the title Plastic Bags under the

second HS Code Number 3923 in the Schedule, there shall be added

the words “excluding bags”.

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