Eco-Contribution (Amendment) Regulations, 2007

L.N. 31 of 2007

ECO-CONTRIBUTION ACT

(CAP. 473)

Eco-Contribution (Amendment) 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

The title of these regulations is the Eco-Contribution Act Title and

(Amendment) 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.

Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 9 of the principal Amends

regulation 9 of

regulations shall be amended as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

for the first paragraph thereof there shall be

substituted the following

"(2) Recognised producers of products falling

under HS Code Numbers 2201 to 2206, inclusive, and

2208, as well as producers of products falling under HS

Code Numbers 3923, 39231000, 7010 and 7612, 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 immediately following

the time when the product is placed on the market:";

(b) immediately after the first paragraph thereof there

shall be added the following new proviso

"Provided that the eco-contribution on the opening

stock of the products falling under HS Code Numbers

3923, 39231000, 7010 and 7612, due as a result of the

coming into force of these regulations, shall be paid by not

later than twelve months from the 1st January, 2007:"; and

(c)

for the words "Provided that on the coming into

force of the Act" in the existing proviso, there shall be

substituted the words "Provided further that on the coming

into force of the Act".