Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment (Country and State Specific Guidelines) Regulations 2023

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    8 June 2023

David Hurley

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Murray Watt

Murray Watt

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Illegal Logging Prohibition Regulation 2012

1  Name

  This instrument is the Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment (Country and State Specific Guidelines) Regulations 2023.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Illegal Logging Prohibition Regulation 2012

1  Clause 2 of Schedule 2 (table item 4)

Omit “3 October 2014”, substitute “19 December 2022”.

2  Clause 2 of Schedule 2 (note)

Repeal the note, substitute:

Note: The country specific guidelines could in 2023 be viewed on the Department’s website (http://www.agriculture.gov.au).

3  Clause 3 of Schedule 2 (table item 1)

Omit “24 October 2014”, substitute “15 September 2022”.

4  Clause 3 of Schedule 2 (table item 2)

Omit “15 October 2014”, substitute “13 October 2022”.

5  Clause 3 of Schedule 2 (table item 2A)

Omit “16 June 2015”, substitute “29 June 2022”.

6  Clause 3 of Schedule 2 (table item 3)

Omit “10 October 2014”, substitute “26 October 2022”.

7  Clause 3 of Schedule 2 (note)

Repeal the note, substitute:

Note: The State specific guidelines could in 2023 be viewed on the Department’s website (http://www.agriculture.gov.au).