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8 Existing critical habitat continued as declared areas of outstanding biodiversity value

8 Existing critical habitat continued as declared areas of outstanding biodiversity value

Any area that was, immediately before the commencement of the new Act, declared to be critical habitat under Part 3 of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 is taken to have been declared under Part 3 of the new Act as an area of outstanding biodiversity value.

Note.

The areas concerned include the critical habitat for the Little Penguin population at Manly, for the Mitchell’s Rainforest Snail in Stotts Island Nature Reserve, for the Gould’s Petrel on Cabbage Tree Island and for the Wollemi Pine.