Regulations, 2006

L.N. 106 of 2006

ECO-CONTRIBUTION ACT

(CAP. 473)

Eco-Contribution Act (Amendment of Second Schedule)

Regulations, 2006

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

Contribution 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>

The title of these regulations is the Eco-Contribution Act

(Amendment of Second Schedule) Regulations, 2006, and they shall

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

Contribution Act, which Second Schedule is hereinafter referred to in

these regulations as “the Schedule”.

For paragraph (b) of subarticle (4) of item 1 of the Schedule,

there shall be substituted the following>

“4. (b) has not made an application for registration

pursuant to subarticle (1), and the authority is satisfied that the

person is liable to be so registered, the Authority shall proceed to

so register him and that person shall be deemed a registered person

for the purposes of the Act with effect from the date on which that

person first became liable to be registered. In such an event, the

producer’s opening stock of products as at the date when he first

became liable to be registered shall be determined by the

authority.”.

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