AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

NATURE CONSERVATION REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 11 of 1982

The Nature Conservation Ordinance 1980 sets up a permit and licence system for the killing and taking of native animals, the keeping, sale, import and export of live fish, the picking of plants, and the felling, removal, damage and destruction of native timber.

The Nature Conservation Regulations prescribe records to be kept by permit and licence-holders under the Ordinance and set fees for licences.