Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 2014 - SECT 80

In this part:

"assessed at a national scale", for an item, means the risk assessment criteria under the common assessment method is applied to the item throughout—

        (a)     Australia or an external Territory; or

        (b)     the coastal sea of Australia or an external Territory; or

        (c)     the seabed of the coastal sea of Australia or an external Territory; or

        (d)     the continental shelf; or

        (e)     the exclusive economic zone.

Note     Coastal sea —see the dictionary.

"Continental shelf"—see the dictionary.

"Exclusive economic zone"—see the dictionary.

"Seabed"—see the dictionary.

"common assessment method" means the methodology used to assess the risk of extinction of a species or collapse of an ecological community, agreed between—

        (a)     the Commonwealth; and

        (b)     the Territory; and

        (c)     a participating State.

"item" means—

        (a)     for the threatened native species list—a native species; or

        (b)     for the threatened ecological communities list—an ecological community; or

        (c)     for the key threatening processes list—a threatening process.

"list" means—

        (a)     the threatened native species list; or

        (b)     the threatened ecological communities list; or

        (c)     the key threatening processes list.

"listing assessment"—see section 85 (2).

"nationally threatened", in relation to an item, means—

        (a)     an item that is a listed threatened species or listed ecological community under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

(Cwlth) (a Commonwealth listed item ); or

        (b)     an item (a "State assessed item") that—

              (i)     is eligible to be a listed threatened species or listed ecological community under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

(Cwlth); and

              (ii)     has been assessed by a participating State as a threatened species or ecological community at a national scale, using the common assessment method; or

        (c)     an item that—

              (i)     is either—

    (A)     eligible to be included in a national category of the threatened native species list; or

    (B)     eligible to be included in the threatened ecological communities list; and

              (ii)     has been assessed by the Territory as a threatened native species or threatened ecological community at a national scale, using the common assessment method.

"nomination" means a nomination mentioned in—

        (a)     section 81; or

        (b)     section 83.

participating State means a State that uses the common assessment method to assess a species or ecological community at a national scale.

"public consultation notice"—see section 84 (1).

"transfer", an item within a list, means transfer the item from 1 category in the list to another category in the list.