Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1992 No. 194 of 1992 - SECT 6

6.(1) For the purposes of this Act, a species is endangered if:

   (a)  it is likely to become extinct unless the circumstances and factors
        threatening its abundance, survival or evolutionary development cease
        to operate; or

   (b)  its numbers have been reduced to such a critical level, or its
        habitats have been so drastically reduced, that it is in immediate
        danger of extinction; or

   (c)  it might already be extinct, but is not presumed extinct.

(2) In addition to subsection (1), a species may be regarded as endangered for
the purposes of this Act if the Minister is satisfied that:

   (a)  it so closely resembles in appearance, at any stage of its biological
        development, a species of a kind referred to in subsection (1) that it
        is difficult to differentiate between the 2 species; and

   (b)  this difficulty poses an additional threat to the last-mentioned
        species; and

   (c)  it would substantially promote the objects of this Act if the
        first-mentioned species were regarded as endangered.

(3) For the purposes of this Act, an ecological community is endangered if:

   (a)  it is likely to become extinct in nature unless the circumstances and
        factors threatening its abundance, survival or evolutionary
        development cease to operate; or

   (b)  it might already be extinct.