Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 2)¹

I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

Dated 8 October 2001

PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

ROBERT HILL

1              Name of Regulations

                These Regulations are the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 2).

2              Commencement

                These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3              Amendment of Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000

                Schedule 1 amends the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000.

Schedule 1        Amendment

(regulation 3)

[1]         After regulation 19.01

insert

19.02      Definition of Commonwealth agency

                For paragraph (j) of the definition of Commonwealth agency in section 528 of the Act, the following companies are prescribed:

                (a)    Telstra Corporation Limited (ABN 33 051 775 556, ACN 051 775 556);

               (b)    each company that is, or becomes, a subsidiary of Telstra Corporation Limited.

Notes

1.       These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2000 No. 181, as amended by 2001 No. 179.

2.       Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 15 October 2001.