Whaling Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1975 No. 105

REGULATION UNDER THE WHALING ACT 1960-1973.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Whaling Act 1960-1973.

Dated this fifth day of June, 1975.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

K. S. WRIEDT

Minister of State for Agriculture.

Amendment of the Whaling Regulations 

After regulation 3 of the Whaling Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Whales of a prescribed kind for the purposes of the definition of ‘ whale ’ in sub-section 5 (1) of the Act.

“ 3a. For the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of ‘ whale ’ in sub-section 5 (1) of the Act, a whale included in a taxon specified in the following table is a whale of a prescribed kind:—

Order	Family	Genus
Odomoceti.................	Delphinidae ............................................	Cephalorhynchus
		Delphinus
		Globicephala
		Grampus
		Lagenorhynchus
		Lissodelphis
		Orcaella
		Orcinus
		Peponocephala
		Pseudorca
		Sousa
		Stenella
		Steuo
		Tursiops
	Physeteridae ...........................................	Kogia
	Ziphiidae ................................................	Berardius
		Hyperoodon
		Mesoplodon
		Tasmacetus
		Ziphius

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 17 June 1975.

 Statutory Rules 1961, No. 65.