Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Minister may formulate a proposal for the list referred to in section 303EB to be amended by including an item.
(2) Unless subsection (3) applies, the Minister must:
(a) cause to be conducted an assessment of the potential impacts on the environment of the proposed amendment; and
(b) cause to be prepared a report on those impacts.
The report must be prepared in accordance with section 303EF and be given to the Minister.
(3) This subsection applies if:
(a) Biosecurity Australia has prepared a report (whether before or after the amendment was proposed) on the potential impacts on the environment if the specimen were to be imported; and
(b) the report is of a type specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; and
(c) the report is given to the Minister; and
(d) the Minister determines that subsection (2) does not apply to the proposed amendment.
(4) A determination made under paragraph (3)(d) is not a
legislative instrument.