Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2022

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated   15 December 2022

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Tanya Plibersek

Minister for the Environment and Water

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000

1  Name

  This instrument is the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2022.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000

1  Regulation 9A.05 (Notes 1 and 2)

Repeal the notes, substitute:

Note: National codes of practice dealing with how to humanely deal with certain species (such as kangaroos, wallabies and crocodiles) have been developed and could in 2022 be viewed on the Department’s website (http://www.dcceew.gov.au).

2  Subregulation 15.01A(3)

Repeal the subregulation, substitute:

Publishing certain advice etc.

 (3) The Committee has the function of:

 (a) publishing the following on the internet:

 (i) the scientific advice provided by the Committee in the performance of its function under paragraph 505D(1)(a), (1)(b), (2)(a) or (2)(b) of the Act;

 (ii) the date on which the advice was finalised by the Committee;

 (iii) if the advice was provided in the performance of the Committee’s function under paragraph 505D(1)(a) or (1)(b) of the Act—information identifying each proposed coal seam gas development and large coal mining development to which the advice relates;

 (iv) any other information in relation to the advice that the Committee considers appropriate; and

 (b) publishing that advice and information on the internet within 10 business days of the advice being provided to the Minister, or the Minister of a declared State or Territory, that requested the advice.

3  At the end of Part 20

Add:

20.12  Amendments made by the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2022

  Subregulation 15.01A(3), as amended by Schedule 1 to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2022, applies in relation to scientific advice provided by the Committee to the Minister, or a Minister of a declared State or Territory, on or after the commencement of that Schedule.