Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery (25/03/2010) (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens

I, NIGEL ROUTH, Assistant Secretary, Marine Biodiversity Policy Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts pursuant to subsection 303DC(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), hereby amend the list of exempt native specimens established under section 303DB of the EPBC Act by revoking the conditions to which the inclusion of the following item on the list on 29 May 2009 is subject:

• Specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, other than specimens that belong to species listed under Part 13 of the EPBC Act, taken in the Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery, as defined in the management regime in force under the Commonwealth Fisheries Management Act 1991 and the Commonwealth Fisheries Management (Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery) Regulations 2002.

and imposing the following conditions to which inclusion of the specimens in the list is subject:

• the specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully; and

• the specimens are included on the list until 21 April 2010.

Dated this 25^th day of   March 2010

………………Nigel Routh…………………

Delegate of the Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts