8Amendments of the Schedules to the Convention

#### 8 Amendments of the Schedules to the Convention (1) Where communication of a decision of the Commission, being a decision referred to in paragraph 7 of Article 2 of the Convention, is received by Australia, the regulations may, for the purpose of enabling Australia to give effect to the decision under the Act when the decision becomes fully effective with respect to Australia, declare that a specified substance or a specified natural material shall be deemed to be added to, or deleted from, the list of substances and natural materials contained in Schedule I or Schedule II, as the case requires, to the Convention, in the form in which that Schedule appears in the Schedule to this Act, or shall be deemed to be added to one of those lists and deleted from the other, or may repeal or amend a regulation or regulations previously made under this section. (2) A regulation made under this section in relation to a decision of the Commission shall take effect on a date specified in the regulation: (a) not being a date earlier than the date on which that decision becomes, under the Convention, fully effective with respect to Australia; and (b) in the case of a regulation referred to in subsection (3)—not being a date occurring within 3 months after notice of the making of the regulation is published in the Gazette. (3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), a regulation is a regulation referred to in this subsection if: (a) it declares that a specified substance or a specified natural material shall be deemed to be added to the list of substances contained in Schedule I, or Schedule II, to the Convention in the form in which that Schedule appears in the Schedule to this Act; or (b) it repeals a regulation that declared that a specified substance or a specified natural material shall be deemed to be deleted from either of those lists.