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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Section 269A - Instrument Adopting and Revoking Recovery Plans (WA)

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This instrument, signed by the Assistant Secretary as delegate for the Minister, revokes the Commonwealth adoption of Western Australia’s 1996 Noisy Scrub-bird Recovery Plan and adopts WA’s 2014 South Coast Threatened Birds Recovery Plan as the Commonwealth recovery plan for four listed species (western ground parrot; western bristlebird; noisy scrub-bird; western whipbird). It is made under s.269A(7) of the EPBC Act and s.33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 and fixes which State recovery plan applies for those listed species.

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Section 269A

Instrument Adopting and Revoking Recovery Plans

I, GEOFFREY RICHARDSON, Assistant Secretary, Protected Species and Communities Branch, delegate for the Minister for the Environment:

(a) pursuant to subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 and subsection 269A(7) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, hereby revoke the adoption of the following State recovery plan:

- Danks, A., Burbidge, A., Burbidge A.H., and Smith, G.T. (1996). Noisy Scrub-bird Recovery Plan. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, Western Australia.

(b) under subsection 269A(7) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, hereby adopt as a recovery plan for the listed threatened species specified below, the plan made by Western Australia:

Listed Threatened Species	Recovery Plan
Pezoporus flaviventris (western ground parrot)Dasyornis longirostris (western bristlebird)Atrichornis clamosus (noisy scrub-bird)Psophodes nigrogularis nigrogularis (western whipbird [western heath])	Department of Parks and Wildlife (2014). South Coast Threatened Birds Recovery Plan. Department of Parks and Wildlife, Perth, Western Australia.

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Section 269A

Instrument Adopting and Revoking Recovery Plans

I, GEOFFREY RICHARDSON, Assistant Secretary, Protected Species and Communities Branch, delegate for the Minister for the Environment:

- Danks, A., Burbidge, A., Burbidge A.H., and Smith, G.T. (1996). Noisy Scrub-bird Recovery Plan. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Wanneroo, Western Australia.

Listed Threatened Species	Recovery Plan
Pezoporus flaviventris (western ground parrot)Dasyornis longirostris (western bristlebird)Atrichornis clamosus (noisy scrub-bird)Psophodes nigrogularis nigrogularis (western whipbird [western heath])	Department of Parks and Wildlife (2014). South Coast Threatened Birds Recovery Plan. Department of Parks and Wildlife, Perth, Western Australia.