A New South Wales battery-stewardship scope term for batteries covered by the NSW regulated-battery scheme.
New South Wales defines regulated battery through a specific inclusion and exclusion list covering common household battery sizes, button cells, portable general-use batteries, e-micromobility batteries, and portable power banks. The page is best read as a subnational scope rule: it tells teams which batteries trigger this NSW stewardship layer before they assign collection, recovery, reporting, or safety workflows.
The source is the NSW Product Lifecycle Responsibility Regulation 2026, a subnational battery-stewardship regulation. The federal Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020 provides wider Australian product-stewardship and waste-export context, while the NSW rule supplies the battery-specific local scope rule for this page.
For implementation teams, the practical task is jurisdiction-specific battery classification: check the battery against the NSW inclusion and exclusion list, then route obligations to the relevant brand-owner, PSO, or scheme workflow.
Product Lifecycle Responsibility Regulation 2026 (NSW)
Each of the following is a type of regulated battery— (a) a battery of one of the following sizes— (i) AAA, (ii) AA, (iii) C, (iv) D, (v) 9 volt, (vi) 6 volt lantern, (b) a button battery or a button cell battery, (c) a removable rechargeable battery weighing 5kg or less, (d) a rechargeable battery used to power an e-micromobility device, (e) a portable power bank weighing 5kg or less. The following are not regulated batteries— (a) lead acid batteries, (b) mobile phone batteries, (c) laptop or tablet computer batteries, (d) back-up batteries incorporated in emergency lighting systems. To avoid doubt, batteries not listed in subsection (1) are not regulated batteries.
NSW state-level regulated-battery product-stewardship source; not a national Australian battery-passport regime.
Reference: section 7
Use this term when deciding whether a battery falls inside the NSW product-stewardship scheme before assigning brand-owner, PSO, collection, reporting, or safety workflows. It should be modeled as local scope data attached to the relevant jurisdiction and source.
For Minespider, regulated battery is a reminder that battery identity and battery obligation are different data questions. A traceability or passport-style system may identify the physical battery, but NSW stewardship workflows still need a local scope rule that says whether this source applies.