Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ANTARCTIC (ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION) LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 156 of 1992 - SECT 9

9. After section 7B of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Specially protected species

"7C.(1) Subject to subsection (2), if a species of native mammal, native bird
or native plant is specified in Annex II to the Madrid Protocol for the
purpose of designation as a specially protected species, the Minister may, by
notice in the Gazette, declare that species to be a specially protected
species.

"(2) If a species of native mammal or native bird was, immediately before the
commencement of this section, a specially protected species because of a
declaration under subsection 8(7) as then in force, that declaration has
effect, for the purposes of this Act, as if it were a declaration made under
subsection (1) on the commencement of this section.

"(3) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, vary or revoke a
declaration made under subsection (1) or referred to in subsection (2).".