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Note: The Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves were included in the National Heritage List by an instrument published in Gazette No. S237 on 7 November 2008.

Part 2A—Actions covered by Ministerial declarations

2A.01  Criteria for accreditation of management arrangements for Commonwealth managed fisheries
 (1) This regulation applies in relation to a decision by the Minister to accredit a management arrangement that applies to a fishery for the purposes of a declaration under section 33 of the Act.
 (2) For paragraph 33(3)(a) of the Act, the criteria that must be met by the management arrangement and the law under which it is in force, or is to be in force, are as follows:
 (a) the law under which the management arrangement is in force, or is to be in force, must be the Fisheries Management Act 1991 or the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984;
 (b) the management arrangement must be endorsed by the Minister under an agreement made under section 146 of the Act;
 (c) the management arrangement must be in the form in which it was endorsed.
 (2A) Paragraph (2)(c) does not apply to an amendment of an accredited management arrangement if the Minister:
 (a) is satisfied that the actions approved in accordance with the amended arrangement will not have significantly greater impacts on the environment than actions approved in accordance with the existing arrangement; and
 (b) has not made a determination under subsection 36A(1) of the Act in relation to the amendment.
 (3) In this regulation:
fishery means a fishery to which the Fisheries Management Act 1991 or the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 applies.

2A.02  Publication of determination about minor amendments to an accredited management arrangement or authorisation process
  For subsection 36A(3) of the Act, a determination must be published at an appropriate location on the Internet.

2A.03  Requirements for a declaration
  For paragraph 37C(b) of the Act, the Minister may make a declaration under section 37A of the Act if he or she is satisfied that it meets the following requirements:
 (a) an adequate assessment of the relevant impacts of actions which can be taken under the bioregional plan to which the declaration relates has been undertaken as part of the process for developing the bioregional plan;
 (b) the bioregional plan addresses:
 (i) the characteristics of the environment in which the actions will take place and which will be impacted by the actions; and
 (ii) the identification of matters of national environmental significance likely to be affected by the actions, and the location and characteristics of those matters; and
 (iii) identification of the relevant impacts of the action or actions; and
 (iv) identification of feasible measures to prevent or mitigate relevant impacts of the