COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

 

List of Specimens Taken to be Suitable for Live Import Amendment 2018 (No. 2)

 

I, JOSH FRYDENBERG, Minister for the Environment and Energy, pursuant to subparagraphs 303EC (1)(a)(i) and 303EC (1)(a)(ii) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, make the following amendments to the list of specimens taken to be suitable for live import, established under section 303EB of the Act:

 

  1. After the first paragraph of the Part 1- Live Specimens not requiring an import permit preamble, add the text:

Part 1 of the list must not contain a CITES specimen.

 

2.      In the preamble to Part 1 of the list:

Remove:

This list is also taken to include any live plant the introduction of which into Australia is in accordance with the Quarantine Act 1908, provided the plant is not included in the list of CITES specimens under this Act.

 

Add:

This list is also taken to include any live plant the introduction of which into Australia is in accordance with the Biosecurity Act 2015, provided the plant is not included in the list of CITES specimens under this Act.

 

3.      In the preamble to Part 2 of the list:

 

Remove:

This list is also taken to include any live plant included in the list of CITES specimens under this Act, provided the introduction of the plant into Australia is in accordance with the Quarantine Act 1908.

 

Add:

This list is also taken to include any live plant included in the list of CITES specimens under this Act, provided the introduction of the plant into Australia is in accordance with the Biosecurity Act 2015.

 

4.      Part 1 of the List: Under the heading Vertebrate Animals, Bony Fishes (Osteichthyes) Marine Fish in the appropriate alphabetic position:

Remove:

Taxon

Common Name

All members of the family Pomacanthidae

Angelfish

Add:

Taxon

Common Name

All members of the family Pomacanthidae (for Holacanthus clarionensis see Part 2)

Angelfish

 


 

5.      Part 2 of the list:

Under the heading Vertebrate Animals, Bony fishes (Osteichthyes) in the appropriate alphabetic position:

Add:

Taxon

Common Name

Holacanthus clarionensis

Clarion angelfish

 

 

This amendment will take effect the day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislation.

 

Dated this 12 day of February 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOSH FRYDENBERG

Minister for the Environment and Energy

Note: The name of this instrument was amended on registration as the instrument as lodged did not have a unique name (see subsection 10(2), Legislation Rule 2016).