Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1992 No. 194 of 1992 - SECT 66

66.(1) If the Director is satisfied that the environmental protections that an
interim conservation order gives could be given by one or more appropriate
conservation agreements, the Director must take reasonable steps to negotiate
and enter into such conservation agreements.

(2) If:

   (a)  the Director has entered into such conservation agreements; and

   (b)  the Minister is satisfied that the agreements give the same
        environmental protections that the order gives; the Minister must:

   (c)  by instrument in writing, revoke the order; and

   (d)  inform the Director accordingly.

(3) As soon as practicable after being so informed, the Director must cause to
be published:

   (a)  in the Gazette; and

   (b)  in any other way required by the regulations; a notice stating that
        the order has been revoked.

(4) In this section:

"environmental protection" means a protective measure that the order contains
relating to any of the following:

   (a)  a native species;

   (b)  an ecological community;

   (c)  habitat of such a species or community;

   (d)  a recovery plan;

   (e)  a threat abatement plan.