COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
 
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
 
Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens
 
 
 
I, PAUL MURPHY, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Trade and Biosecurity Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment, pursuant to subsection 303DC(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), hereby amend the list of exempt native specimens established under section 303DB of the EPBC Act by revoking the conditions to which the inclusion of the following item in the list on 23 February 2015 is subject:
 
·         specimens that are or are derived from fish or invertebrates, other than:
-  specimens that belong to species listed under Part 13 of the EPBC Act, and
-  specimens that belong to taxa listed under section 303CA of the EPBC Act (Australia’s CITES list)
taken in the Queensland East Coast Inshore Fin Fish Fishery, as defined in the management regime in force under the Queensland Fisheries Act 1994,
 
and imposing the following conditions to which inclusion of the specimens in the list is subject:
 
·         the specimen, or the fish or invertebrate from which it is derived, was taken lawfully, and
 
·         the specimens are covered by the declaration of an approved wildlife trade operation under section 303FN of the EPBC Act in relation to the fishery.
 
 
 
Dated this 30th day of             September 2015
 
 
 
 
….………………………Paul Murphy……………………….
 
Delegate of the Minister for the Environment