"critically endangered ecological community" means an ecological community
specified in Part 2 of Schedule 4A.
"critically endangered species" means a species specified in Part 1 of
Schedule 4A.
"critically endangered species and ecological communities" means species and
ecological communities specified in Schedule 4A and
"critically endangered species or ecological community" means a species or
ecological community respectively specified in that Schedule.
"endangered ecological community" means an ecological community specified in
Part 3 of Schedule 4.
"endangered population" means a population specified in Part 2 of Schedule 4.
"endangered species" means a species specified in Part 1 of Schedule 4.
"endangered species, populations and ecological communities" means species,
populations and ecological communities specified in Schedule 4 and
"endangered species, population or ecological community" means a species,
population or ecological community respectively specified in that Schedule.
(a) in the case of fish--take, injure or otherwise harm the
fish, or
(b) in the case of marine vegetation--gather, cut, pull up, destroy,
poison, dig up, remove, injure or otherwise harm the marine vegetation, or any
part of it,
"joint management agreement" means an agreement entered into under Division 8.
"key threatening process" means a threatening process specified in Schedule 6.
"land" includes--
(a) land covered with water, whether regularly or
intermittently, and
(b) the sea or an arm of the sea, and
(c) a bay, inlet,
lagoon, lake or body of water, whether inland or not and whether tidal or not,
and
(d) a river, stream or watercourse, whether tidal or not.
"landholder" of land means a person who owns land or who, whether by reason of
ownership or otherwise, is in lawful occupation or possession, or has lawful
management or control, of land.
"list" means a list set out in Schedules 4-6, and includes a list in one or
more of those Schedules that does not contain any entries.
"Priorities Action Statement" means a Threatened Species Priorities Action
Statement under Division 5A.
"public authority" means a public authority (as defined in section 4), and
includes a person exercising any function on behalf of the authority and any
person prescribed by the regulations to be a public authority.
"recovery plan" means a recovery plan prepared and approved under Division 5.
"species" means a species of fish or marine vegetation, and includes any
defined sub-species and taxon below a sub-species and any recognisable variant
of a sub-species or taxon.
"species presumed extinct" means a species specified in Part 4 of Schedule 4.
"threat abatement plan" means a threat abatement plan prepared and approved
under Division 5.
"threatened ecological community" means an ecological community specified in
Part 3 of Schedule 4, Part 2 of Schedule 4A or Part 2 of Schedule 5.
"threatened species" means a species specified in Part 1 (Endangered species)
or 4 (Species presumed extinct) of Schedule 4, Part 1 (Critically
endangered species) of Schedule 4A or Part 1 (Vulnerable species) of Schedule
5.
"threatened species, populations and ecological communities" means species,
populations and ecological communities specified in Schedules 4, 4A and 5 and
"threatened species, population or ecological community" means a species,
population or ecological community respectively specified in any of those
Schedules.
"vulnerable ecological community" means an ecological community specified in
Part 2 of Schedule 5.
"vulnerable species" means a species specified in Part 1 of Schedule 5.
(2) A
reference in this Part to fish or marine vegetation indigenous to New South
Wales is a reference to fish or marine vegetation of a species that was
established in New South Wales before European settlement.
Note : "Coastal waters of the State" is defined in section 58 of the
Interpretation Act 1987 . Generally speaking, coastal waters extend to the
waters of the sea within 3 nautical miles of the coast.