ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION REGULATIONS 2000 2000 NO. 181 - REG 7.05 Nomination for native species

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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION REGULATIONS 2000 2000 NO. 181 - REG 7.05

Nomination for native species

(1): This regulation applies to a nomination for a native species to be included in a particular category of the list referred to in section 178 of the Act.

(2): The nomination must include the following information:

(a): the scientific name (if any) of the species;
(b): any common name, or names by which the species is known to a person making the nomination;
(c): if the species is not conventionally accepted:

(i): a taxonomic description of the species in a form suitable for publication in conventional scientific literature; or
(ii): if a description for subparagraph (i) is not available, evidence that a scientific institution has a specimen of the species and a written statement, signed by a person who is a taxonomist and has relevant expertise, that the person thinks the species is a new species;

(d): the category for which the species is nominated;
(e): why a person making the nomination thinks that the species comes within the definition of the category for which it is nominated;
(f): if a species is nominated for a category mentioned in subsection 179 (3), (4) or (5) of the Act, why a person making the nomination thinks that the species meets the criteria mentioned in regulation 7.01 for the category.

(3): For subparagraph (2) (c) (ii), a person has relevant expertise if the person has worked, or is a published author, on the class of species nominated.

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