Amendment of the List of Exempt Native Specimens Coral Sea Fishery (16/11/2007) (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens

I, CLAIRE HOWLETT, Acting Assistant Secretary, Marine Environment Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources 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 including in the list the following specimens:

• 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 Coral Sea Fishery, as defined in the Statement of Management Arrangements, Coral Sea Fishery 2007, in force under the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

with a notation that inclusion of the specimen 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 covered by the declaration of an approved Wildlife Trade Operation under section 303FN of the EPBC Act in relation to the fishery.  

The instrument commenced on the day it was registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

Dated this 16 day of November 2007

………………Claire Howlett…………………………

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources