Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (List of Threatened Species) Amendment (381) Instrument 2023

I, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, make the following instrument.

Dated 19-6-2023   

Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek

Minister for the Environment and Water

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).

1  Name

  This instrument is the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (List of Threatened Species) Amendment (381) Instrument 2023.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 184 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Declaration under s178, s181, and s183 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999- List of threatened species, List of threatened ecological communities and List of threatening processes

1  In the appropriate position under the heading “SPECIES THAT ARE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED”

Insert the following species:

(a)                    Gentiana wissmannii

2  In the appropriate position under the heading “SPECIES THAT ARE ENDANGERED”

Insert each of the following species:

(a)                    Styphelia perileuca

(b)                   Veronica lithophila

3  In the appropriate position under the heading “SPECIES THAT ARE VULNERABLE”

Omit each of the following species:

(a)                    Gentiana wissmannii

(b)                   Styphelia perileuca