Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Amendment (Conservation Measures) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 160, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 17 September 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for the Environment

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Regulations 1994

1  Name

  This is the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Amendment (Conservation Measures) Regulation 2015.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Act 1981.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Regulations 1994

1  Regulation 4

Omit “set out in the Schedule”.

2  At the end of regulation 4

Add:

Note: Conservation measures are certain measures adopted by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, and accepted by Australia, from time to time (see the definition of conservation measures in subsection 3(1) of the Act).

3  Paragraph 7(1)(b)

Omit “set out in the Schedule”.

4  At the end of subregulation 7(1)

Add:

Note: The conservation measures that must be complied with are certain measures adopted by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, and accepted by Australia, from time to time (see the definition of conservation measures in subsection 3(1) of the Act).

5  After Part 3

Insert:

Part 4—Application, savings and transitional provisions

13  Transitional—amendments made by the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Amendment (Conservation Measures) Regulation 2015

  A permit under subsection 9(1) of the Act that was in force immediately before the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Amendment (Conservation Measures) Regulation 2015 does not, on and after that commencement, authorise a person to do an act that would contravene a conservation measure, despite any terms or conditions to which the permit was subject immediately before that commencement.

6  Schedule

Repeal the Schedule.