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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 303ED

Amendment of list on the Minister's own initiative

  (1)   The Minister may formulate a proposal for the list referred to in section   303EB to be amended by including an item.

  (2)   Unless subsection   (3) applies, the Minister must:

  (a)   cause to be conducted an assessment of the potential impacts on the environment of the proposed amendment; and

  (b)   cause to be prepared a report on those impacts.

The report must be prepared in accordance with section   303EF and be given to the Minister.

  (3)   This subsection applies if:

  (a)   Biosecurity Australia has prepared a report (whether before or after the amendment was proposed) on the potential impacts on the environment if the specimen were to be imported; and

  (b)   the report is of a type specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; and

  (c)   the report is given to the Minister; and

  (d)   the Minister determines that subsection   (2) does not apply to the proposed amendment.

  (4)   A determination made under paragraph   (3)(d) is not a legislative instrument.



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