An Australian federal product-stewardship actor concept for a person specified as liable in relation to a product under the rules.
Liable party helps connect Australian product-stewardship and waste-export work to the national framework. The key point is that the rules specify who is liable for a product; the term is not a battery-specific label and should not be used as a substitute for NSW brand owner, responsible entity, or PSO.
This page is Australian federal framework context. It complements, but does not replace, NSW regulated-battery actor terms and should be read as a product-stewardship / waste-material role rather than a dedicated battery category definition.
Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020
Rules may specify liable parties (1) A liable party, in relation to a product, is a person specified as a liable party in relation to that product in the rules. (2) However, a person is a liable party in relation to a product only if the person: (a) is a constitutional corporation; and (b) has at any time: (i) manufactured the product in Australia; or (ii) imported the product into Australia; or (iii) distributed the product in Australia; or (iv) used the product in Australia.
Australian federal product-stewardship / waste-export source layer; not a battery-specific definition and not interchangeable with NSW battery-stewardship roles.
Reference: Section 77
Implementation records should capture the product-specific rule, liable-party identifier, connection-to-product evidence, relevant activity such as manufacture, import, distribution, use, or disposal, responsibility record, and source reference before assigning the Australian federal role.
Liable party is an Australian federal liability-routing control: the evidence consequence is that product-stewardship responsibility can be linked to rule-specified product connections without confusing the federal role with NSW brand owner, responsible entity, or PSO logic.