Commonwealth Numbered Acts

WILDLIFE PROTECTION (REGULATION OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS) ACT 1982 No. 149 of 1982 - SECT 5

5. (1) This Act and the regulations shall be read and construed as being in
addition to, and not in derogation of or in substitution for-

   (a)  the Customs Act 1901;

   (b)  the Quarantine Act 1908; or

   (c)  any other law of the Commonwealth or of an external Territory, whether
        passed or made before or after the commencement of this Act.

(2) A person who is the holder of a permit or an authority to export or to
import a specimen is not, by reason only of being the holder of the permit or
authority, exempt from compliance with any law referred to in paragraph (1)
(a), (b) or (c) that applies in relation to that specimen.

(3) Without limiting the generality of sub-section (1), this Act and the
regulations shall not be read or construed as authorizing or permitting the
doing of any act in contravention of the Quarantine Act 1908 or of a law of an
external Territory relating to quarantine.