Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1992 No. 194 of 1992 - SECT 62

62.(1) An interim conservation order comes into force:

   (a)  if a commencement day is specified in the order-on that day; or

   (b)  otherwise-immediately after it is made.

(2) The order remains in force:

   (a)  until:

        (i)    if it prohibits, restricts or imposes requirements on an
               activity that is carried out, or proposed to be carried out,
               primarily for a commercial purpose-subject to subsection (3),
               the end of the period of 28 days after it is made; or

        (ii)   otherwise-the end of the period of 6 months after it is made;
               or

   (b)  until it is revoked by the Minister under section 65 or subsection 
        66(2) ; whichever happens first.

(3) The Minister may renew an interim conservation order of the kind referred
to in subparagraph (2)(a)(i) for a further period of 28 days if he or she
reasonably believes that it is necessary to renew the order on one or more of
the grounds referred to in section 59.

(4) For the purposes of subparagraph (2)(a)(i), the commercial purposes
referred to in that subsection need not be the commercial purposes of the
person carrying out, or proposing to carry out, the activity in question.