An Act to conserve threatened species, populations and ecological communities of animals and plants; to amend the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974, the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and certain other Acts; to repeal the Endangered Fauna (Interim Protection) Act 1991; and for other purposes.
This Part contains provisions that set out the objects of this Act and define terms used in this Act. The Part also contains machinery provisions.
This Act is the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995.
This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation, except as provided in this section.
Section 155 (2) commences on the date of assent to this Act.
The objects of this Act are as follows:
(a) to conserve biological diversity and promote ecologically sustainable development, and
(b) to prevent the extinction and promote the recovery of threatened species, populations and ecological communities, and
(c) to protect the critical habitat of those threatened species, populations and ecological communities that are endangered, and
(d) to eliminate or manage certain processes that threaten the survival or evolutionary development of threatened species, populations and ecological communities, and
(e) to ensure that the impact of any action affecting threatened species, populations and ecological communities is properly assessed, and
(f) to encourage the conservation of threatened species, populations and ecological communities by the adoption of measures involving co-operative management.
In this Act:
(a) humans, or
(b) fish within the meaning of Part 7A of the Fisheries Management Act 1994.
Some types of fish may be included in the definition of
(a) genetic diversity—the variety of genes (or units of heredity) in any population,
(b) species diversity—the variety of species,
(c) ecosystem diversity—the variety of communities or ecosystems.