Biodiversity Conservation (Savings and Transitional) Amendment (Upper Hunter Strategic Assessment Agreement) Regulation 2019 (NSW)

New South Wales

Biodiversity Conservation (Savings and

Transitional) Amendment (Upper Hunter
Strategic Assessment Agreement)

Regulation 2019

under the

Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.

GABRIELLE UPTON, MP

Minister for the Environment

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to amend the Biodiversity Conservation (Savings and Transitional)

Regulation 2017 to extend the time period within which Commonwealth endorsement of the Upper Hunter

Biodiversity Plan may occur from 18 months to 30 months after the commencement of the Biodiversity

Conservation Act 2016.

This Regulation is made under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, including section 14.10 (the general regulation-making power) and clause 1 of Schedule 9.

Biodiversity Conservation (Savings and Transitional) Amendment (Upper Hunter Strategic Assessment

Agreement) Regulation 2019 [NSW]

Biodiversity Conservation (Savings and Transitional)
Amendment (Upper Hunter Strategic Assessment Agreement)

Regulation 2019

under the

Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Biodiversity Conservation (Savings and Transitional)

Amendment (Upper Hunter Strategic Assessment Agreement) Regulation 2019.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Biodiversity Conservation (Savings and Transitional) Regulation 2017

Clause 33 Savings and transitional arrangements for coal mining—Upper Hunter

Strategic Assessment Agreement

Omit “18 months” from paragraph (b) of the definition of Upper Hunter Biodiversity

Plan in clause 33 (1).
Insert instead “30 months”.