Migratory Birds (Amendment) Ordinance 1988 (AAT) (Cth)

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AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

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Migratory Birds (Amendment) Ordinance 1988

No. 1 of 1988

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 May 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GRAHAM RICHARDSON

Minister of State for the Arts, Sport,
the Environment, Tourism and Territories

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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 1988.1

Principal Ordinance

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

Interpretation

  1. Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is amended:

(a)   by omitting from subsection (1) the definition of “Agreement”; and

(b)    by omitting subsection (2).

Permits to take birds

4.  Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from paragraph (5) (e) “, being a purpose consistent with the Agreement”.            

Permits for purchase of birds

5.  Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from paragraph (5) (d) “, being a purpose consistent with the Agreement”.

Regulations

6.  Section 25 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from subsection (2) “that is not consistent with the Agreement” and substituting:

“unless the Minister considers that that purpose is consistent with international agreements relating to the protection of migratory birds, birds in danger of extinction and their environmnet, as in force from time to time, to which Australia is a party”.

Schedule 1

7.Schedule 1 to the Principal Ordinance is repealed.

Schedule 3

8.  Schedule 3 to the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

SCHEDULE 3   Section 3

MIGRATORY BIRDS

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Common Name

Column 3

Scientific name (species or subspecies)

1 Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans
2 Providence Petrel Pterodroma solandri
3 Streaked Shearwater Calonectris leucomelas (Puffinus leucomelas)
4 Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus
5 Flesh-footed Shearwater Puffinus carneipes
6 Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus

SCHEDULE 3 – continued

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Common Name

Column 3

Scientific name (species or subspecies)

7 Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris
8 Wilson’s Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus
9 Leach’s Storm-petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa
10 White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
11 Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
12 Masked Booby Sula dactylatra
13 Red-footed Booby Sula sula
14 Great Frigatebird Fregata minor
15 Least Frigatebird Fregata ariel
16 Cattle Egret Ardeola ibis (Bubulcus ibis)
17 Great Egret Egretta alba
18 Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
19 Garganey Anas querquedula
20 Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
21 Mongolian Plover Charadrius mongolus
22 Large Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii
23 Oriential Plover Charadrius veredus
24 Lesser Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
25 Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola
26 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
27 Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
28 Red-necked Stint Calidris ruticollis
29 Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta
30 Baird’s Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
31 Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
32 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata
33 Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
34 Red Knot Calidris canutus
35 Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris
36 Sanderling Calidris alba (Crocethia alba)
37 Ruff Philomachus pugnax
38 Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis
39 Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus
40 Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus
41 Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
42 Greenshank Tringa nebularia
43 Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola

SCHEDULE 3 – continued

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Common Name

Column 3

Scientific name (species or subspecies)

44 Grey-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes
45 Wandering Tattler Tringa incana
46 Common Sandpiper Tringa hypoleucos
47 Terek Sandpiper Tringa terek (Xenus cinereus)
48 Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
49 Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
50 Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis
51 Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
52 Little Curlew Numenius minutus (Numenius borealis)
53 Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura (Capella stenura)
54 Swinhoe’s Snipe Gallinago megala (Capella megala)
55 Latham’s Snipe Gallinago hardwickii (Capella hardwickii)
56 Grey Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
57 Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
58 Oriential Pratincole Glareola maldivarum
59 South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki
60 Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
61 Arctic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
62 Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicauda
63 White-winged Tern Childonias leucoptera
64 Black Tern Childonias niger
65 Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia (Hydroprogne tschegrava)
66 Common Tern Sterna hirundo
67 Black-naped Tern Sterna sumatrana
68 Bridled Tern Sterna anaethetus
69 Little Tern Sterna albifrons
70 Common Noddy Anous stolidus
71 Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus
72 White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus
73 Rainbow Bee-eater Merops ornatus
74 Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus
75 Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
76 Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava

SCHEDULE 3 – continued

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Common Name

Column 3

Scientific name (species or subspecies)

77 Eastern Reef Egret Egretta sacra
78 Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis
79 Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus
80 White-bellied Sea-eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster
81 Sarus Crane Grus antigone
82 Red-legged Crake Rallina fasciata
83 Corncrake Crex crex
84 Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus
85 Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis
86 Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius
87 Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
88 Redshank Tringa totanus
89 Dunlin Calidris alpina
90 Lesser Crested Tern Thalasseus bengalensis (Sterna bengalensis)
91 Greater Striated Swallow Hirundo striolata
92 Yellow-headed Wagtail Motacilla citreola
93 Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
94 White Wagtail Motacilla alba
95 Great Reed-warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus
96 Arctic Willow Warbler Phylloscopus borealis
97 Andrew’s Frigatebird Fregata andrewsi
98 Caspian Plover Charadrius asiaticus

NOTES

1.   Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 1 June 1998.

2.   No. 2, 1980 as amended by No. 1, 1982; No. 1, 1983; No. 1, 1985.

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