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.