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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

 

List of Specimens taken to be Suitable for Live Import Amendment

(red ruffed lemur) Instrument 2022

 

 

I, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, pursuant to subparagraphs 303EC(1)(a)(i) and 303EC(1)(a)(iii) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, and having considered a report prepared for the purposes of  paragraph 303EC(5)(a) of that Act, make the following amendment by including in Part 2 of the List of Specimens Taken to be Suitable for Live Import (29/11/2001) under the heading ‘Vertebrate Animals’, ‘Mammals (Mammalia)’ in the appropriate alphabetic position:

 

 

Taxon

Common Name

Conditions for import

Varecia rubra

red ruffed lemur

Import for the purposes of conservation breeding in accordance with subsection 303FF(2).

 

 

 

This instrument commences the day after registration.

 

 

Dated:       29.11.2022

 

 

 

…………………………………………..

TANYA PLIBERSEK

Minister for the Environment and Water