Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens - Victorian Rock Lobster Fishery (11/09/2009) (inclusion) (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 the Environment, Heritage and the Arts pursuant to subsection 303DC(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act), hereby amend the list of exempt native specimens established under section 303DB of the EPBC Act by including in the list the following:

• 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 Rock Lobster Fishery, as defined in the Victorian Rock Lobster Fishery Management Plan 2009 made under the Victorian Fisheries Act 1995 and Fisheries Regulations 1998.

with a notation that inclusion of the specimens in the list is subject to the following restrictions or conditions:

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

·    The specimens are included on the list until 30 September 2014.

Dated this      11       day of    September            2009

………...…..……...……Nigel Routh……….……...…..……...…..……

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