Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1992 No. 194 of 1992 - SECT 166

166. (1) This section applies to Commonwealth areas that are not areas of
land.

(2) The Director must:

   (a)  prepare; or

   (b)  cause to be prepared in accordance with procedures approved by the
        Director; surveys that identify, and state the extent of the range of:

   (c)  the marine species that are listed native species; and

   (d)  the marine ecological communities that are listed ecological
        communities; present in Commonwealth areas.

(3) Each survey is to cover such Commonwealth areas as the Director
determines.

(4) A Commonwealth area must be covered by a survey:

   (a)  within 10 years after the commencement of this Act; or

   (b)  within 10 years after the area became a Commonwealth area; whichever
        is the later.

(5) The Director may, at any time:

   (a)  vary a survey; or

   (b)  cause a survey to be varied in accordance with procedures approved by
        the Director.

(6) The Director must cause a copy of a survey, or a variation of a survey, to
be given to any Commonwealth agency that owns, occupies or has any other
interest in a Commonwealth area covered by the survey.

(7) A Commonwealth agency that owns, occupies or has any other interest in a
Commonwealth area is to provide all reasonable assistance in connection with
the preparation under this section of a survey that is to cover the area.