ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 272 Eradication of non - native species

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 272

    If:

  (a)   the actions specified under paragraph   270(2)(c) in a recovery plan, or under paragraph   271(2)(c) in a threat abatement plan, include the eradication of a non - native species; and

  (b)   the species is threatened in a country in which its native habitat occurs;

the recovery plan, or threat abatement plan, must require the Commonwealth to offer to provide stock of the species to that country before the eradication proceeds.