World Heritage Properties Conservation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1990 No. 2491

World Heritage Properties Conservation Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the World Heritage Properties Conservation Act 1983.

Dated 25 July 1990.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. Kelly

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

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1. Amendments

1.1 The World Heritage Properties Conservation Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

2. New Regulation 3E

Insert after Regulation 3D:

Prescribed acts—property to which section 9 applies—native plants

“3E. (1) In this Regulation:

‘native plants’ means:

(a) plants that are indigenous to Australia; and

(b) plants of a kind introduced into Australia, directly or indirectly, by Aboriginals before the year 1788;

‘plant’ means any member, alive or dead, of the plant kingdom or the fungus kingdom, and includes seeds and parts of plants;

‘relevant property’ means the property described in Schedule 2C.

 

(S.R. 255/90)–Cat. No. 14/23.7.1990

 

“(2) For the purposes of subsection 9 (1) of the Act, each of the following acts is prescribed in relation to the relevant property:

(a) killing, removing or damaging a native plant;

(b) disturbing soil in such a way as to damage a native plant;

(c) permitting, authorising, directing or ordering, or purporting to permit, authorise, direct or order, the doing of an act of a kind referred to in paragraph (a) or (b);

other than acts of the kind referred to in those paragraphs that involve:

(d) traditional activities of Aboriginal people; or

(e) activities performed by Aboriginal people for their own use.”.

3. New Schedule 2C

Insert after Schedule 2B:

SCHEDULE 2C

LOT 640. PARISH OF ROCKINGHAM, WET TROPICS OF QUEENSLAND

All that piece of land in the State of Queensland County of Cardwell Parish of Rockingham being the whole of the land in Lot 640 on Plan Cat. No. CWL3521.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 July 1990.

2. Statutory Rules 1983 No. 65 as amended by 1983 No. 67; 1988 Nos. 2, 47, 68, 337, 338 and 389; Act No. 7, 1988.

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