Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment Regulations 2011 (No. 1)1
Select Legislative Instrument 2011 No. 191
I, QUENTIN BRYCE, 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 19 October 2011
QUENTIN BRYCE
Governor-General
By Her Excellency’s Command
TONY BURKE
1 Name of Regulations
These Regulations are the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment Regulations 2011 (No. 1).
2 Commencement
These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.
3 Amendment of Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000
Schedule 1 amends the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000.
Schedule 1 Amendments
(regulation 3)
[1] Before regulation 2.01
insert
Division 2.1 Nuclear action
[2] After regulation 2.03
insert
Division 2.2 Additional matters of national environmental significance
Note Division 2.2 reserved for future use.
Division 2.3 Actions taken to be covered by Division 1 of Part 3 of the Act
2.10 Grazing domestic stock
For subsection 25A (1) of the Act and to give effect to Australia’s obligations under Article 8 of the Biodiversity Convention, the grazing of domestic stock in the Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves is taken to be an action to which subsections 15B (5) and 15C (9) and (10) of the Act apply.
Note The Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves were included in the National Heritage List by an instrument published in Gazette No. S237 on 7 November 2008.