Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ANTARCTIC TREATY (ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION) ACT 1980 - SCHEDULE 2

Section   3

21.   Representatives, pursuant to paragraph   19(a) above, agreed to recommend for approval by their respective Governments, that the Annex be changed in the following way:

Section   1:   for 1   July to 30   June read 1   March to the last day in February.

Section   6(a):   for 31   October read 30   June and for 1   July to 30   June read 1   March to the last day in February.

31.   Accordingly, they agreed on the text of the following amendment to the Annex (new paragraph   8) which they recommended to the Governments of Contracting Parties for their approval.

"8.   Cooperation

The Contracting Parties to this Convention shall, as appropriate, cooperate and exchange information with the Contracting Parties to the other international instruments within the Antarctic Treaty System and their respective institutions."

36.   Representatives, noting that they agreed on the desirability of extending the protection afforded to Weddell seals to include pups during the breeding season, agreed to recommend to Governments the deletion in section   2 of the Annex of the words "one year old or older".