Australian Capital Territory
Nature Conservation Threatened Ecological Communities List 2015 (No 1)*
Notifiable instrument NI 2015–437
made under the  
Nature Conservation Act 2014 
s 69 (Threatened ecological communities list—categories)
s 404 (Endangered ecological communities)
s 404A (Notification of lists)

1	Name of instrument
This instrument is the Nature Conservation Threatened Ecological Communities List 2015 (No 1).
2	Commencement 
This instrument commences on the day after notification. 
3	List of threatened ecological communities
Under section 69 of the Nature Conservation Act 2014 (the Act) I make the threatened ecological communities list of eligible ecological communities and relevant categories in the schedule.

Note 1: Section 404 of the Act is a transitional provision.  Section 404 provides that an ecological community declared to be an endangered ecological community under the Nature Conservation Act 1980 (1980 Act), section 38 (Declaration of species, community or process) is on the commencement day of the Act, taken to be eligible to be included in the endangered category on the threatened ecological communities list under section 70 (2) (Threatened ecological communities list—eligibility for categories) of the Act.  The ecological communities and categories in the schedule were declared as such under section 38 of the 1980 Act (refer to Nature Conservation (Species and Ecological Communities) Declaration 2015 (No 1) DI2015-88).  
Note 2: Section 404A of the Act is a transitional provision.  Section 404A deems a list made under section 69 to be a threatened ecological communities list notified under s91(2)(b).  Section 68 of the Act defines a “threatened ecological communities list” as a list of ecological communities notified under section 91.  

Note 3: Section 404A of the Act results from a modification to the Act made under the Nature Conservation (Transitional Provisions) Regulation 2015 (transitional regulation) under section 414.  The transitional regulation expires on 11 June 2017 when Chapter 20 (Transitional) of the Act expires as a result section 415.  

Simon Corbell
Minister for the Environment
28 July 2015

Schedule 1	Ecological Communities that are critically endangered 

Name of community	Description	
None listed		

Schedule 2	Ecological Communities that are endangered

Name of community	Description	
		
Natural Temperate Grassland	A naturally occurring grassland of the temperate zone, dominated by native perennial tussock grasses, with associated native herbs and native fauna.	
		
Yellow Box/Red Gum Grassy Woodland	A naturally occurring woodland of the temperate zone, in which Yellow Box co-occurs with Blakely’s Red Gum.  It includes the species rich understorey of native tussock grasses, herbs and scattered shrubs, together with a large number of native animal species.	

Schedule 3	Ecological Communities that are vulnerable

Name of community	Description	
None listed