Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ANTARCTIC TREATY (ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION) ACT 1980 - SECT 7C

             (1)  Subject to subsection (2), if a species of native seal, native bird or native plant is specified in Annex II to the Madrid Protocol for the purpose of designation as a specially protected species, the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette , declare that species to be a specially protected species.

             (2)  If a species of native seal or native bird was, immediately before the commencement of this section, a specially protected species because of a declaration under subsection 8(7) as then in force, that declaration has effect, for the purposes of this Act, as if it were a declaration made under subsection (1) on the commencement of this section.

             (3)  The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette , vary or revoke a declaration made under subsection (1) or referred to in subsection (2).