Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens Victorian Abalone Fishery (12/06/2012) (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 Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, pursuant to subsection303DC(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 in the list on 30 June 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 Victorian Abalone Fishery, as defined in the management regime in force under the Victorian Fisheries Act 1995

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 in the list until 21 June 2013.

Dated this       12th                 day of              June                 2012

……………Nigel Routh……………

Delegate of the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities