COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
 
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
 
Amendment of List of Exempt Native Specimens
 
 
 
I, NATHAN HANNA, Acting Assistant Secretary, Marine Biodiversity Policy Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, 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 3 October 2007 is subject:
 
Native oyster (Ostrea angasi)
 
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 in accordance with the Fisheries (Shellfish) Rules 2007 in force under the Tasmanian Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995, and
 
·         the specimens are included in the list until 5 May 2017.
 
 
 
Dated this 27 day of April 2012
 
 
 
                                                         
……………Nathan Hanna…………………………
Delegate of the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities