Endangered Species Protection Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1997

No. 134 1

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Endangered Species Protection Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Endangered Species Protection Act 1992.

Dated 16 June 1997.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT HILL

Minister for the Environment

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Endangered Species Protection Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   Regulation 5 (Nominations of ecological communities)

2.1   Paragraph 5 (b):

Omit the paragraph, substitute:

• “(b)

  a description of the ecological community that is sufficient to distinguish it from any other ecological community by reference to:

  • (i)

    its biological and non-biological components; and

  • (ii)

    if the processes by which those components interact are known—those processes;”.

2.2   Paragraph 5 (d)

After “criteria”, insert “(if any)”.

2.3   Paragraph 5 (f):

Omit the paragraph, substitute:

• “(f)

  the known current distribution of the ecological community, and a known past distribution, or a reliably-based estimate of the past distribution, of that community;”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 June 1997.

2. Statutory Rules 1993 No. 84 as amended by 1995 No. 70.