Eco-Contribution (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2007

L.N. 202 of 2007

ECO-CONTRIBUTION ACT

(CAP. 473)

Eco-Contribution (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2007

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 13 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 Citation and

(Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2007, and they shall be read and commencement.

construed as one with the Eco-Contribution Regulations, 2004, L.N. 395 of 2004

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

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

force with effect from 1 st January 2007.

(3) The provisions of these regulations shall supersede the

provisions of the Eco-Contribution (Amendment) Regulations, 2007

published by Legal Notice 31 of 2007 which shall be considered as

never to have been made or to have any effect.

Regulation 9 of the principal regulations shall be amended as Amends

regulation 9

follows>-

of the principal

regulations.

(a) for the first paragraph of sub-regulation (2), there shall

be substituted the following>

“Producers of products falling under HS Code Numbers

2201 to 2206, inclusive, 2208< 170410< 2106< 3303 to 3307,

inclusive< 33051000< 3402< 3923< 39231000< 39241000< 7010<

7612< 842123< 8506 and 8507< and 9306 as detailed in the

First Schedule, shall report and pay to the Competent

Authority the eco-contribution due on the relative products

with the return due for the period during which time the

product is placed on the market>”<

(b) immediately after the first paragraph of sub-regulation

(2), there shall be added the following proviso>

“Provided that the eco-contribution on the opening stock

of the products falling under HS Code Numbers 2201 to 2206,

inclusive, 2208, to the exclusion of refillable containers<

170410< 2106< 3303 to 3307, inclusive< 33051000< 3402<

3923< 39231000< 39241000< 7010< 7612< 842123< 8506 and

8507< and 9306, as detailed in the First Schedule, due as a

result of the coming into force of these Regulations, shall be

payable by not later than twelve months from the date of the

coming into force of these regulations.”<

(c) for the words “Provided that on the coming into force

of the Act” in the existing proviso to sub-regulation (2), there shall

be substituted the words “Provided further that on the coming into

force of the Act”< and

(d) in sub-regulation (3), the words “paragraph (2) of this

regulation and” shall be deleted.

The Eco-Contribution (Amendment) Regulations, 2007 are

hereby being revoked.

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