Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Section 269A - Instrument Adopting and Revoking Recovery Plans (WA) (21/08/2015) (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Section 269A

Instrument Adopting and Revoking Recovery Plans

I, GEOFFREY RICHARDSON, Assistant Secretary, Protected Species and Communities Branch, delegate for the Minister for the Environment:

(a) pursuant to subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 and subsection 269A(7) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, hereby revoke the adoption of the following State recovery plan:

-Wardell-Johnson, G., Roberts, J.D., Driscoll, D., and Williams, K. (1995). Orange-bellied and White-bellied Frogs Recovery Plan. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia.

(b) under subsection 269A(7) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, hereby adopt as a recovery plan for the listed threatened species specified below, the plan made by Western Australia:

Listed Threatened Species

Recovery Plan

Geocrinia alba

Geocrinia vitellina

Department of Parks and Wildlife (2015). White-bellied and Orange-bellied Frogs (Geocrinia alba and Geocrinia vitellina) Recovery Plan. Department of Parks and Wildlife, Perth, Western Australia.

Dated this            21st                   day of                 August                  2015

Geoff Richardson        

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment

This instrument comes into force on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.