Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION AMENDMENT ACT 2016 (NO. 29 OF 2016) - SECT 16

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"nationally threatened", in relation to an item, means—

        (a)     an item that is a listed threatened species or listed ecological community under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

(Cwlth) (a Commonwealth listed item ); or

        (b)     an item (a "State assessed item") that—

              (i)     is eligible to be a listed threatened species or listed ecological community under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

(Cwlth); and

              (ii)     has been assessed by a participating State as a threatened species or ecological community at a national scale, using the common assessment method; or

        (c)     an item that—

              (i)     is either—

    (A)     eligible to be included in a national category of the threatened native species list; or

    (B)     eligible to be included in the threatened ecological communities list; and

              (ii)     has been assessed by the Territory as a threatened native species or threatened ecological community at a national scale, using the common assessment method.

participating State means a State that uses the common assessment method to assess a species or ecological community at a national scale.