New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 220P

220P Habitat eligible to be declared critical habitat

(1) The whole or any part of the habitat of an endangered species, population or ecological community or critically endangered species or ecological community that is critical to the survival of the species, population or ecological community is eligible to be declared under this Division to be the critical habitat of the species, population or ecological community.

(2) The regulations may provide that a specified habitat, or habitat of a specified kind, may, or may not, be declared to be critical habitat for the purposes of this Division.

Note: For the purposes of this section, "habitat" means any area occupied, or periodically or occasionally occupied, by fish or marine vegetation (or both), and includes any biotic or abiotic component-see section 4.