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ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1992 No. 194 of 1992 - SECT 23 Key threatening processes

ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1992 No. 194 of 1992 - SECT 23

Key threatening processes
23.(1) The Minister must not add a threatening process to Schedule 3 unless
the Minister is satisfied that it is eligible to be treated as a key
threatening process.

(2) The Minister must not delete a threatening process from Schedule 3 unless
the Minister is satisfied that it is no longer eligible to be treated as a
key threatening process.

(3) For the purposes of this section, a threatening process is eligible to be
treated as a key threatening process if:

   (a)  it:

        (i)    adversely affects 2 or more listed native species or 2 or more
               listed ecological communities; or

        (ii)   could cause native species or ecological communities that are
               not endangered to become endangered; and

   (b)  the preparation and implementation of a nationally co-ordinated threat
        abatement plan is a feasible, effective and efficient way to abate the
        process.

(4) Before deciding whether a theatening process is eligible to be treated as
a key threatening process, the Minister must take reasonable steps to consult,
with Commonwealth agencies that would be affected by or interested in
abatement of the process, on the feasibility, effectiveness or efficiency of
preparing and implementing a nationally co-ordinated threat abatement plan to
abate the process.