Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 347

    Before the Governor - General makes a Proclamation assigning a Commonwealth reserve, or a zone within a Commonwealth reserve, to a particular IUCN category, the Minister must be satisfied:

  (a)   that the reserve or zone:

  (i)   has the characteristics (if any) prescribed by the regulations for the category; and

  (ii)   meets the criteria (if any) prescribed by the regulations for the category; and

  (b)   that the reserve or zone should be managed in accordance with the Australian IUCN reserve management principles for the category.