Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 520

             (1)  The Governor-General may make regulations prescribing all matters:

                     (a)  required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

                     (b)  necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

             (2)  The regulations may prescribe penalties for offences against the regulations. A penalty must not be more than 50 penalty units.

             (3)  Regulations may be made for and in relation to giving effect to any of the following agreements:

                     (a)  the Apia Convention;

                     (b)  the Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific (the SPREP Convention) signed at Noumea on 24 November 1986;

                     (c)  the Bonn Convention;

                     (d)  CAMBA;

                     (e)  JAMBA;

                      (f)  an agreement between the Commonwealth and one or more other countries relating to whales;

                     (g)  the World Heritage Convention;

                     (h)  the Ramsar Convention;

                      (i)  the Biodiversity Convention;

                      (j)  CITES;

                     (k)  the Framework Convention on Climate Change done at New York on 9 May 1992.

             (4)  Regulations made in relation to an agreement that has not entered into force for Australia are not to come into operation on a day earlier than the day on which the agreement enters into force for Australia.

             (5)  Subsection (3) does not limit subsection (1).

             (6)  The regulations may prohibit or regulate the export from an external Territory to Australia or another external Territory of:

                     (a)  CITES specimens; and

                     (b)  regulated native specimens.

             (7)  The regulations may prohibit or regulate the import into an external Territory from Australia or another external Territory of:

                     (a)  CITES specimens; and

                     (b)  regulated live specimens.

             (8)  The regulations may prohibit or regulate the possession in an external Territory of:

                     (a)  specimens that have been imported into that Territory in contravention of regulations made for the purposes of subsection (7); or

                     (b)  the progeny of such specimens.