Control of Disposable Plastics (Amendment) Act No. 60 of 2019

CONTROL OF DISPOSABLE PLASTICS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019-60 Arrangement of Sections Short title Amendment to section 4 of Act 2019–11 Repeal and replacement of section 5 of Act 2019-11 1. 2. 3. 30th December, 2019 2019-60 BARBADOS I assent KENNETH R. HEWITT Acting Governor-General 27th December, 2019. 2019-60 An Act to amend the Control of Disposable Plastics Act (Act 2019-11) to defer the date of implementation of the ban on the manufacture, distribution, sale and use of single use petro-based plastic bags and for related matters. [Commencement: 30th December, 2019] ENACTED by the Parliament of Barbados as follows: CONTROL OF DISPOSABLE PLASTICS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019-60 3 http://barbadosparliament-laws.com/en/showdoc/cs/2019 11 Short title This Act may be cited as the Control of Disposable Plastics (Amendment) Act, 2019. Amendment to section 4 of Act 2019–11 Section 4 of the Control of Disposable Plastics Act (Act 2019-11), in this Act referred to as the principal Act, is amended by inserting immediately after subsection (2) the following: Subject to section 6, with effect from the 1st day of April, 2020 no person shall manufacture, distribute, offer for sale or use any single use petro-based plastic bags.”; “(3) deleting subsection (3) and substituting the following: A person who contravenes subsections (1), (2) or (3) is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $50 000 or to imprisonment for a term of one year or to both and in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine of $1 000 for each day or part thereof, during which the offence continues after which a conviction is first obtained.”. “(4) Repeal and replacement of section 5 of Act 2019-11 Section 5 of the principal Act is deleted and the following is substituted: 1. 2. (a) (b) 3. 4 CONTROL OF DISPOSABLE PLASTICS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019-60 http://barbadosparliament-laws.com/en/showdoc/cs/2019 11 “Prohibition on the importation of single use petro-based plastic bags Subject to section 6, with effect from the 1st day of January, 2020 no person shall import any single use petro-based plastic bags.”. 5. CONTROL OF DISPOSABLE PLASTICS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019-60 5