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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens – Victorian Corner Inlet Fishery, September 2020

I, Stephen Oxley, First Assistant Secretary, Heritage, Reef and Wildlife Trade Division, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment, pursuant to subsection 303DC(1)(a) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), hereby amend the list of exempt native specimens established under section 303DB of the EPBC Act by deleting from the list specimens and any notations specified in Schedule 1, and by including in the list specimens and associated restrictions or conditions as set out in Schedule 2.

This instrument is a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2003.

The instrument commences the day after it is registered.

All state and territory legislation referred to in Schedule 2 to the instrument is incorporated as in force at the time this instrument commences.

Dated this   17th   day of  September  2020

….………………Stephen Oxley……………….
Delegate of the Minister for the Environment

SCHEDULE 1

Under the heading Freshwater and Marine Animals delete from the list the following items and any associated notations:
Taxon/Item                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Common Name                     Notation
specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, other than specimens that belong to species listed under Part 13 of the EPBC Act (other than a species listed in the conservation dependent category) and specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 303CA of the EPBC Act (Australia's CITES list), taken in the Victorian Corner Inlet Fishery as defined in the management regime in force under the Fisheries Act 1995 (VIC) and Fisheries Regulations 2009 (VIC).  Victorian Corner Inlet Fishery      * the specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully, and

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       the specimens are covered by the declaration of an approved wildlife trade operation under section 303FN of the EPBC Act in relation to the fishery.

SCHEDULE 2

Under the heading Freshwater and Marine Animals include in the list the following items and associated notations:
Taxon/Item                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Common Name                     Notation
Specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates taken in the Victorian Corner Inlet Fishery as defined in the management regime in force under the Fisheries Act 1995 (Victoria), and the Fisheries Regulations 2019 (Victoria), but not including:  Victorian Corner Inlet Fishery      * the specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully; and
  (a)   specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 209 of the EPBC Act (Australia's List of Migratory Species), or                                                                                                                                                                            * the specimens are covered by the declaration of an approved wildlife trade operation under section 303FN of the EPBC Act in relation to the fishery.
  (b)   specimens