Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1992 No. 194 of 1992 - SECT 7

7.(1) For the purposes of this Act, a species is vulnerable at a particular
time if, within the next 25 years, the species is likely to become endangered
unless the circumstances and factors threatening its abundance, survival or
evolutionary development cease to operate.

(2) In addition to subsection (1), a species may be regarded as vulnerable 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 vulnerable.