220BDefinitions

220B Definitions

220B Definitions

(1) In this Part—

critical habitat means habitat declared to be critical habitat under Division 3.

critically endangered ecological community means an ecological community specified in Part 2 of Schedule 4A.

critically endangered species means a species specified in Part 1 of Schedule 4A.

critically endangered species and ecological communities means species and ecological communities specified in Schedule 4A and critically endangered species or ecological community means a species or ecological community respectively specified in that Schedule.

ecological community means an assemblage of species of fish or marine vegetation (or both) occupying a particular area.

endangered ecological community means an ecological community specified in Part 3 of Schedule 4.

endangered population means a population specified in Part 2 of Schedule 4.

endangered species means a species specified in Part 1 of Schedule 4.

endangered species, populations and ecological communities means species, populations and ecological communities specified in Schedule 4 and endangered species, population or ecological community means a species, population or ecological community respectively specified in that Schedule.

environmental planning instrument or EPI means an environmental planning instrument under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

fish means any fish indigenous to New South Wales.

Fisheries Scientific Committee means the Fisheries Scientific Committee constituted under Division 9.

harm means—

(a) in the case of fish—take, injure or otherwise harm the fish, or

(b) in the case of marine vegetation—gather, cut, pull up, destroy, poison, dig up, remove, injure or otherwise harm the marine vegetation, or any part of it,

but in any such case does not include harm by changing the habitat of the fish or marine vegetation.

joint management agreement means an agreement entered into under Division 8.

key threatening process means a threatening process specified in Schedule 6.

land includes—

(a) land covered with water, whether regularly or intermittently, and

(b) the sea or an arm of the sea, and

(c) a bay, inlet, lagoon, lake or body of water, whether inland or not and whether tidal or not, and