ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999

Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Regulations

(a): required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b): necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2): The regulations may prescribe penalties for offences against the regulations. A penalty must not be more than 50 penalty units.
(3): Regulations may be made for and in relation to giving effect to any of the following agreements:

(a): the Apia Convention;
(b): the Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific (the SPREP Convention) signed at Noumea on 24 November 1986;
(c): the Bonn Convention;
(d): CAMBA;
(e): JAMBA;
(f): an agreement between the Commonwealth and one or more other countries relating to whales;
(g): the World Heritage Convention;
(h): the Ramsar Convention;
(i): the Biodiversity Convention;
(j): CITES;
(k): the Framework Convention on Climate Change done at Rio de Janeiro on 5 June 1992.

(4): Regulations made in relation to an agreement that has not entered into force for Australia are not to come into operation on a day earlier than the day on which the agreement enters into force for Australia.
(5): Subsection (3) does not limit subsection (1).

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