2013

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Environment Legislation Amendment Bill 2013

(Government)

(1)     Schedule 1, page 3 (lines 4 and 5), omit the heading.

[approved conservation advice]

(2)     Schedule 1, item 1, page 3 (lines 6 to 14), omit the item, substitute:

1  Non-compliance with requirement to have regard to any approved conservation advice before 31 December 2013

If a provision of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 requires the Minister to have regard to any approved conservation advice, then a thing is not invalid merely because the Minister failed, when doing the thing or anything related to the thing at any time before 31 December 2013, to have regard to any relevant approved conservation advice.

[approved conservation advice]