Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to subsection (2), if a species of native seal, native bird, native invertebrate or native plant is specified in Annex II to the Madrid Protocol for the purpose of designation as a specially protected species, the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette , declare that species to be a specially protected species.
(2) If a species of native seal or native bird was, immediately before the commencement of this section, a specially protected species because of a declaration under subsection 8(7) as then in force, that declaration has effect, for the purposes of this Act, as if it were a declaration made under subsection (1) on the commencement of this section.
(3) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette , vary or revoke a declaration made under subsection (1) or referred to in subsection (2).