Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 301A

    The regulations may:

  (a)   provide for the establishment and maintenance of a list of species, other than native species, whose members:

  (i)   do or may threaten biodiversity in the Australian jurisdiction; or

  (ii)   would be likely to threaten biodiversity in the Australian jurisdiction if they were brought into the Australian jurisdiction; and

  (b)   regulate or prohibit the bringing into the Australian jurisdiction of members of a species included in the list mentioned in paragraph   (a); and

  (c)   regulate or prohibit trade in members of a species included in the list mentioned in paragraph   (a):

  (i)   between Australia and another country; or

  (ii)   between 2 States; or

  (iii)   between 2 Territories; or

  (iv)   between a State and a Territory; or

  (v)   by a constitutional corporation; and

  (d)   regulate and prohibit actions:

  (i)   involving or affecting members of a species included in the list mentioned in paragraph   (a); and

  (ii)   whose regulation or prohibition is appropriate and adapted to give effect to Australia's obligations under an agreement with one or more other countries; and

  (e)   provide for the making and implementation of plans to reduce, eliminate or prevent the impacts of members of species included in the list mentioned in paragraph   (a) on biodiversity in the Australian jurisdiction.