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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Listing of CITES Species - Declaration of Stricter Domestic Measure (10/12/2002)

Authoritative Version
Lists as made
Declares that the list of CITES species for the purposes of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 has effect as if it were modified as set out in the declaration.
Administered by: Environment and Energy
Registered 31 Jan 2007
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR05-Feb-2003
Tabled Senate05-Feb-2003
Gazetted 18 Dec 2002
Date of repeal 01 Apr 2017
Repealed by Sunsetting

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

 

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

 

Listing of CITES Species

Declaration of Stricter Domestic Measure

 

I, David Kemp, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, pursuant to subsection 303CB(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, hereby declare that the list of CITES species established under subsection 303CA(1) of the Act has effect as if the populations of the species Loxodonta africana (African Elephant) that are included in Appendix II to CITES are included in Appendix I to CITES.

 

 

 

Dated this   10th     day of     December       2002

 

 

 

 

DAVID KEMP

 

 

Minister for the Environment and Heritage

 

 

Notes:

 

CITES means the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora made at Washington on 3 March 1973, as amended and in force for Australia from time to time.

 

This declaration takes effect upon publication in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette.