AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

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Migratory Birds (Amendment) Ordinance 1982

 

No. 1 of 1982

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Australian Antarctic Territory Act 1954.

 Dated 25 June 1982.

 

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

 

 

D. T. McVEIGH

Minister of State for Home Affairs and Environment

for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for Science and Technology

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An Ordinance to amend the Migratory Birds Ordinance 1980

 

Short title

 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Migratory Birds (Amendment) Ordinance 1982.1

Principal Ordinance

 2. In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Migratory Birds Ordinance 1980.2

Permits to take birds

 3. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is amended-

 (a) by omitting from sub-section (1) “to him”;

 (b) by omitting from paragraph (2) (a) “purpose of one of the prescribed kinds of purpose specified in paragraphs (5) (a) to (e) inclusive” and substituting “prescribed purpose referred to in sub-section (5)”;

 (c) by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “purpose of one of the prescribed kinds of purpose specified in paragraphs 5 (a) to (e) inclusive” and substituting “prescribed purpose referred to in sub-section (5)”;

 (d) by omitting from sub-section (5) “kinds of purpose is a prescribed kind of” and substituting “purposes is a prescribed”; and

 (e) by omitting from paragraph (5) (d) “for” (second occurring) and substituting “from”.

 

Permits for the sale of birds

 4. Section 7 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) “to him”.

 

Permit to sell birds to be issued subject to conditions

5. Section 8 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting “10” and substituting “9”.

 

Permits for purchase of birds

6. Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) by omitting from paragraphs (2) (a) and (b) “purpose of one of the prescribed kinds of purpose specified in paragraphs (5) (a) to (d) inclusive” and substituting “prescribed purpose referred to in sub-section (5)”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (5) “kinds of purpose is a prescribed kind of” and substituting “purposes is a prescribed”.

 

Inspector may require production of permit, &c.

 7. Section 16 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (3) all the words from and including “Where an inspector” to and including “sub-section (1), he” and substituting “An inspector (other than a member of the police force who is in uniform) who makes a requirement of a person under sub-section (1)”.

 

Restriction on issue of permit, &c.

 8. Section 18 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (c) “number of”.

 

Appeal

 9. Section 22 of the Principal Ordinance is amended-

 (a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “cancel or”; and

 (b) by omitting paragraph (1) (c) and substituting the following paragraph:

  “(c) to cancel a permit under paragraph 17 (2) (a),”.

 

Regulations

 10. Section 25 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

 “(2) The regulations shall not prescribe a purpose in respect of any provisions of this Ordinance that is not consistent with the Agreement.”.

 

Additional amendments

 11. The Principal Ordinance is amended as set out in the Schedule.

 

Schedule 1

 12. Schedule 1 to the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

 

 

 

 

 


SCHEDULE 1 Section 3

BIRDS OF SPECIES OR SUBSPECIES IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Common name

Column 3

Scientific name (species or subspecies)

1

Gould’s petrel

Pterodroma leucoptera leucoptera

2

Providence petrel

Pterodroma solandri

3

Lord Howe Island flesh-footed shearwater

Puffinus carneipes hullianus

4

Short-tailed albatross (Japan)

Diomedea albatrus

5

Abbott’s booby

Sula abbotti

6

Christmas Island frigatebird

Fregata andrewsi

7

Oriental white stork (Japan)

Ciconia ciconia boyciana

8

Japanese crested ibis (Japan)

Nipponia nippon

9

Aleutian Canada goose (Japan)

Branta canadensis leucopareia

10

Red goshawk

Accipiter radiatus

11

Bonin buzzard (Japan)

Buteo buteo toyoshimae

12

Ryukyu serpent eagle (Japan)

Haematornis cheela perplexus

13

Japanese golden eagle (Japan)

Aquila chrysaetos japonica

14

Volcano Islands peregrine falcon (Japan)

Falco peregrinus fruitii

15

Japanese ptarmigan (Japan)

Lagopus mutus japonicus

16

Plains-wanderer

Pedionomus torquatus

17

Lord Howe Island woodhen

Tricholimnas sylvestris

18

Japanese crane (Japan)

Grus japonicus

19

Nordmann’s greenshank (Japan)

Tringa guttifer

20

Lesser noddy

Anous tenuirostris

21

Stejneger’s wood pigeon (Japan)

Columba janthina stejnegeri

22

Red-headed wood pigeon (Japan)

Columba janthina nitens

23

Norfolk Island parrot

Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae cookii

24

Coxen’s fig-parrot

Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni

25

Night parrot

Geopsittacus occidentalis

26

Orange-bellied parrot

Neophema chrysogaster


SCHEDULE 1 – continued

 

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Common name

Column 3

Scientific name (species or subspecies)

27

Ground parrot

Pezoporus wallicus

28

Princess parrot

Polytelis alexandrae

29

Golden-shouldered parrot

Psephotus chrysopterygius

30

Hooded parrot

Psephotus dissimilis

31

Paradise parrot

Psephotus pulcherrimus

32

Norfolk Island boobook owl

Ninox novaeseelandiae royana

33

Christmas Island owl

Ninox squamipila natalis

34

Blakiston’s eagle-owl (Japan)

Bubo blakistoni blakistoni

35

Plumed frogmouth

Podargus ocellatus plumiferus

36

Noisy scrub bird

Atrichornis clamosus

37

Pryer’s woodpecker (Japan)

Sapheopipe noguchii

38

Owston’s white-backed woodpecker (Japan)

Dendrocopos leucotos owstoni

39

Ezo three-toed woodpecker (Japan)

Picoides tridactylus inouei

40

Purple-crowned wren

Malurus coronatus

41

Dorothy grass-wren

Amytornis dorotheae

42

Thick-billed grass-wren

Amytornis textilis textilis

43

Western bristlebird

Dasyornis longirostris

44

Eastern bristlebird

Dasyornis brachypterus

45

Rufous bristlebird

Dasyornis broadbenti littoralis

46

Lord Howe Island currawong

Strepera graculina crissalis

47

Western whipbird

Psophodes nigrogularis

48

Forty-spotted pardalote

Pardalotus quadragintus

49

Norfolk Island silvereye

Zosterops albogularis

50

Helmeted honeyeater

Lichenostomus melanops cassidix

51

Black-eared miner

Manorina melanotis

52

Hahajima honey-eater (Japan)

Apalopteron familiare hahasima

53

Bonin greenfinch (Japan)

Chloris sinica kittlitzi

54

Lidth’s jay (Japan)

Garrulus lidthi

55

Torishima bush-warbler (Japan)

Cettia diphone panafidinicus


SCHEDULE 1 – continued

 

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Common name

Column 3

Scientific name (species or subspecies)

56

Japanese swamp-warbler (Japan)

Bradypterus pryeri pryeri

57

Lesser Chinese bulbul (Japan)

Pycnonotus sinensis orii

58

Borodino wren (Japan)

Troglodytes troglodytes orii

59

Ryukyu robin or Temminck’s (Japan)

Erithacus komadori komadori

60

Stejneger’s robin (Japan)

Erithacus komadori namiyei

61

Yaeyama robin (Japan)

Erithacus komadori subrufa

62

Amami tiger thrush (Japan)

Turdus dauma amami

63

Northern scrub-robin

Drymodes superciliaris colcloughi

Schedule 2

 13. Schedule 2 to the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting the table headings and substituting the following headings:

 

MIGRATORY BIRDS

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Common name

Column 3

Scientific name (species or subspecies)

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SCHEDULE     Section 11

ADDITIONAL AMENDMENTS OF PRINCIPAL ORDINANCE

 The following provisions of the Prinicpal Ordinance are amended by omitting “sub-species” (wherever occurring) and substituting “subspecies”;

 Sub-section 3 (1), paragraphs 4 (1) (a) and (b), sub-sections 4 (2), (3) and (4), paragraph 5 (a), paragraphs 7 (1) (a) and (b), sub-section 7 (2), paragraphs 10 (1) (a) and (b), sub-sections 10 (2), (3) and (4), paragraph 11 (a) and paragraph 18 (1) (b).

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 9 July 1982.

2. No. 2, 1980.