Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens - Victorian Rock Lobster Fishery (19/09/2014) (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens

I, PAUL MURPHY, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Trade and Biosecurity Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment 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 deleting from the list the following item and any associated notations:

• 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

and 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 2009

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 in the list until 25 September 2015.

Dated this       19th                 day of              September                   2014

….……………Paul Murphy……………………………………

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment