COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth)

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE MANAGEMENT PLAN

1. I, Greg Hunt, Minister for the Environment:  

(a)          having considered the comments that were given in response to an
invitation under section 303FR(1) of the Environment Protection and
Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (EPBC Act); and

(b)          being satisfied as to the matters set out in section 303FO of the EPBC
Act,

declare that the Management Plan for the Commercial Harvest of Kangaroos
in Western Australia 2014‒2018 (the Plan), is an approved wildlife trade
management plan for the purposes of section 303FO of the EPBC Act.

2. The Plan is only subject to the declaration in paragraph 1:

(a)          from 31 March 2014 until 31 December 2018;

(b)          to the extent that the Plan relates to specimens from the following
species:

(i)             red kangaroos (Macropus rufus); and

(ii)           western grey kangaroos (Macropus fuliginosus); 

(c)           if the commercial harvest of the species referred to in paragraph 2(b) is
carried out in accordance with the Plan; and

(d)          while the condition specified in the Schedule to this Instrument is
complied with.

Dated this ........20th ................ day of .....March...............................2014

.......................Greg Hunt............................

Minister for the Environment

SCHEDULE

Condition 1

The annual report referred to in Action 17 of the Plan must be submitted to the
Department of the Environment by 31 March each year. The annual report must
cover the previous calendar year.