EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Amendment of the list of exempt native specimens in accordance with Section 303DC
Section 303DB of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) provides for the establishment of a list of exempt native specimens. Specimens included in the list are exempt from the trade control provisions that apply to regulated native specimens.
The effect of this instrument is to delete Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii), Mary River cod (Maccullochella peelii) and any associated notations from the list of exempt native specimens.
Deletion (under paragraph 303DC(1)(e)) from the list of exempt native specimens is necessary to correct an administrative error by which these species were included in the list. Subsection 303DB(6) specifies that the list must not include a specimen that belongs to a listed threatened species, therefore these species should not have been included in the list.
This instrument is a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
The instrument commenced on the day after it was registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.