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ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1995 NO. 70

STATUTORY RULES 1995 No. 70

Issued by the authority of the Minister for the Environment, Sport and Territories

Endangered Species Protection Act 1992

Endangered Species Protection Regulations (Amendment)

Section 176 of the Endangered Species Protection Act 1992 (the Act) provides for the making of regulations by the Governor-General.

Under sections 138 and 159 of the Act the Endangered Species Advisory Committee and the Endangered Species Scientific Subcommittee provide advice to the Minister on the operation of the Act.

The purpose of these Regulations is to amend the Endangered Species Protection Regulations which are in force under the Endangered Species Protection Act 1992 (the Act).

Regulation 4 prescribes the descriptive information for native species to be supplied in a public nomination under section 25 of the Act.

The Endangered Species Scientific Subcommittee advised the Minister of concerns they had in regard to the operation of paragraph 4(1)(e)(i) and recommended that an additional definition be inserted to overcome their concerns. The subcommittee was concerned that the current wording might delay the consideration of nominations for new species in some circumstances and that this could hinder conservation action for the species.

The amendment inserts words into subregulation 4(1)(e)(i) to allow for alternative taxonomic descriptions of previously unknown and unnamed species rather than only those that are suitable for publication in the scientific literature.