Habitat eligible to be declared critical habitat
220P Habitat eligible to be declared critical habitat
The whole or any part of the habitat of an endangered species, population or ecological community or critically endangered species or ecological community that is critical to the survival of the species, population or ecological community is eligible to be declared under this Division to be the critical habitat of the species, population or ecological community.
The regulations may provide that a specified habitat, or habitat of a specified kind, may, or may not, be declared to be critical habitat for the purposes of this Division.
Note.
For the purposes of this section, habitat means any area occupied, or periodically or occasionally occupied, by fish or marine vegetation (or both), and includes any biotic or abiotic component—see section 4.
This provision refers to the regulations (The regulations may provide
). Made under this Act:
- Fisheries Management (Abalone Share Management Plan) Regulation 2000
- Fisheries Management (Aquaculture) Regulation 2024
- Fisheries Management (Authority to Fish Silver Perch) Order 2007 · Regulation
12 more instruments made under this Act are listed on the Act’s overview.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandum
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