Migratory Birds (Amendment) Ordinance 1982 (AAT) (Cth)

AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

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Migratory Birds (Amendment) Ordinance 1982

No. 1 of 1982

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Australian Antarctic Territory Act 1954.

Dated 25 June 1982.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. T. McVEIGH

Minister of State for Home Affairs and Environment

for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for Science and Technology

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An Ordinance to amend the Migratory Birds Ordinance 1980

Short title

1.      This Ordinance may be cited as the Migratory Birds (Amendment) Ordinance 1982.¹

Principal Ordinance

2.      In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Migratory Birds Ordinance 1980.²

Permits to take birds

3.      Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is amended-

(a)   by omitting from sub-section (1) “to him”;

(b)   by omitting from paragraph (2) (a) “purpose of one of the prescribed kinds of purpose specified in paragraphs (5) (a) to (e) inclusive” and substituting “prescribed purpose referred to in sub-section (5)”;

(c)   by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “purpose of one of the prescribed kinds of purpose specified in paragraphs 5 (a) to (e) inclusive” and substituting “prescribed purpose referred to in sub-section (5)”;

(d)   by omitting from sub-section (5) “kinds of purpose is a prescribed kind of” and substituting “purposes is a prescribed”; and

(e)   by omitting from paragraph (5) (d) “for” (second occurring) and substituting “from”.

Permits for the sale of birds

4.      Section 7 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) “to him”.

Permit to sell birds to be issued subject to conditions

5.      Section 8 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting “10” and substituting “9”.

Permits for purchase of birds

6.      Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is amended-

(a)     by omitting from paragraphs (2) (a) and (b) “purpose of one of the prescribed kinds of purpose specified in paragraphs (5) (a) to (d) inclusive” and substituting “prescribed purpose referred to in sub-section (5)”; and

(b)     by omitting from sub-section (5) “kinds of purpose is a prescribed kind of” and substituting “purposes is a prescribed”.

Inspector may require production of permit, &c.

7.      Section 16 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (3) all the words from and including “Where an inspector” to and including “sub-section (1), he” and substituting “An inspector (other than a member of the police force who is in uniform) who makes a requirement of a person under sub-section (1)”.

Restriction on issue of permit, &c.

8.      Section 18 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (c) “number of”.

Appeal

9.      Section 22 of the Principal Ordinance is amended-

(a)     by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “cancel or”; and

(b)    by omitting paragraph (1) (c) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(c)   to cancel a permit under paragraph 17 (2) (a),”.

Regulations

10.    Section 25 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

“(2)   The regulations shall not prescribe a purpose in respect of any provisions of this Ordinance that is not consistent with the Agreement.”.

Additional amendments

11.    The Principal Ordinance is amended as set out in the Schedule.

Schedule 1

12.    Schedule 1 to the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

SCHEDULE 1   Section 3

BIRDS OF SPECIES OR SUBSPECIES IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Common name	Column 3 Scientific name (species or subspecies)
1	Gould’s petrel	Pterodroma leucoptera leucoptera
2	Providence petrel	Pterodroma solandri
3	Lord Howe Island flesh-footed shearwater	Puffinus carneipes hullianus
4	Short-tailed albatross (Japan)	Diomedea albatrus
5	Abbott’s booby	Sula abbotti
6	Christmas Island frigatebird	Fregata andrewsi
7	Oriental white stork (Japan)	Ciconia ciconia boyciana
8	Japanese crested ibis (Japan)	Nipponia nippon
9	Aleutian Canada goose (Japan)	Branta canadensis leucopareia
10	Red goshawk	Accipiter radiatus
11	Bonin buzzard (Japan)	Buteo buteo toyoshimae
12	Ryukyu serpent eagle (Japan)	Haematornis cheela perplexus
13	Japanese golden eagle (Japan)	Aquila chrysaetos japonica
14	Volcano Islands peregrine falcon (Japan)	Falco peregrinus fruitii
15	Japanese ptarmigan (Japan)	Lagopus mutus japonicus
16	Plains-wanderer	Pedionomus torquatus
17	Lord Howe Island woodhen	Tricholimnas sylvestris
18	Japanese crane (Japan)	Grus japonicus
19	Nordmann’s greenshank (Japan)	Tringa guttifer
20	Lesser noddy	Anous tenuirostris
21	Stejneger’s wood pigeon (Japan)	Columba janthina stejnegeri
22	Red-headed wood pigeon (Japan)	Columba janthina nitens
23	Norfolk Island parrot	Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae cookii
24	Coxen’s fig-parrot	Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni
25	Night parrot	Geopsittacus occidentalis
26	Orange-bellied parrot	Neophema chrysogaster

SCHEDULE 1 – continued

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Common name	Column 3 Scientific name (species or subspecies)
27	Ground parrot	Pezoporus wallicus
28	Princess parrot	Polytelis alexandrae
29	Golden-shouldered parrot	Psephotus chrysopterygius
30	Hooded parrot	Psephotus dissimilis
31	Paradise parrot	Psephotus pulcherrimus
32	Norfolk Island boobook owl	Ninox novaeseelandiae royana
33	Christmas Island owl	Ninox squamipila natalis
34	Blakiston’s eagle-owl (Japan)	Bubo blakistoni blakistoni
35	Plumed frogmouth	Podargus ocellatus plumiferus
36	Noisy scrub bird	Atrichornis clamosus
37	Pryer’s woodpecker (Japan)	Sapheopipe noguchii
38	Owston’s white-backed woodpecker (Japan)	Dendrocopos leucotos owstoni
39	Ezo three-toed woodpecker (Japan)	Picoides tridactylus inouei
40	Purple-crowned wren	Malurus coronatus
41	Dorothy grass-wren	Amytornis dorotheae
42	Thick-billed grass-wren	Amytornis textilis textilis
43	Western bristlebird	Dasyornis longirostris
44	Eastern bristlebird	Dasyornis brachypterus
45	Rufous bristlebird	Dasyornis broadbenti littoralis
46	Lord Howe Island currawong	Strepera graculina crissalis
47	Western whipbird	Psophodes nigrogularis
48	Forty-spotted pardalote	Pardalotus quadragintus
49	Norfolk Island silvereye	Zosterops albogularis
50	Helmeted honeyeater	Lichenostomus melanops cassidix
51	Black-eared miner	Manorina melanotis
52	Hahajima honey-eater (Japan)	Apalopteron familiare hahasima
53	Bonin greenfinch (Japan)	Chloris sinica kittlitzi
54	Lidth’s jay (Japan)	Garrulus lidthi
55	Torishima bush-warbler (Japan)	Cettia diphone panafidinicus

SCHEDULE 1 – continued

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Common name	Column 3 Scientific name (species or subspecies)
56	Japanese swamp-warbler (Japan)	Bradypterus pryeri pryeri
57	Lesser Chinese bulbul (Japan)	Pycnonotus sinensis orii
58	Borodino wren (Japan)	Troglodytes troglodytes orii
59	Ryukyu robin or Temminck’s (Japan)	Erithacus komadori komadori
60	Stejneger’s robin (Japan)	Erithacus komadori namiyei
61	Yaeyama robin (Japan)	Erithacus komadori subrufa
62	Amami tiger thrush (Japan)	Turdus dauma amami
63	Northern scrub-robin	Drymodes superciliaris colcloughi

Schedule 2

13.    Schedule 2 to the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting the table headings and substituting the following headings:

MIGRATORY BIRDS

Column 1 Item Column 2 Common name Column 3 Scientific name (species or subspecies)

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SCHEDULE       Section 11

ADDITIONAL AMENDMENTS OF PRINCIPAL ORDINANCE

The following provisions of the Prinicpal Ordinance are amended by omitting “sub-species” (wherever occurring) and substituting “subspecies”;

Sub-section 3 (1), paragraphs 4 (1) (a) and (b), sub-sections 4 (2), (3) and (4), paragraph 5 (a), paragraphs 7 (1) (a) and (b), sub-section 7 (2), paragraphs 10 (1) (a) and (b), sub-sections 10 (2), (3) and (4), paragraph 11 (a) and paragraph 18 (1) (b).

NOTES

1.   Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 9 July 1982.

2.     No. 2, 1980.