Commonwealth of Australia

Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989

Declaration of article 11 arrangement

I, DAVID ALISTAIR KEMP, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, being satisfied that the arrangement between the Governments of Australia and the Democratic Republic of East Timor concerning the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes, constituted by an exchange of notes of 31 October 2002 and 4 November 2002, is an agreement or arrangement of a kind mentioned in Article 11 of the Basel Convention, declare, under subsection 4C(1) of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989, that the arrangement is an Article 11 arrangement for the purposes of that Act.

Dated 9th December 2002

DAVID KEMP

Minister for the Environment and Heritage