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Wildlife Protection (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1982
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##### 5 Saving of other laws
(1) This Act and the regulations shall be read and construed as being in addition to, and not in derogation of or in substitution for:
(a) the Customs Act 1901;
(b) the Quarantine Act 1908; or
(c) any other law of the Commonwealth or of an external Territory, whether passed or made before or after the commencement of this Act.
(2) A person who is the holder of a permit or an authority to export or to import a specimen is not, by reason only of being the holder of the permit or authority, exempt from compliance with any law referred to in paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (c) that applies in relation to that specimen.
(3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), this Act and the regulations shall not be read or construed as authorizing or permitting the doing of any act in contravention of the Quarantine Act 1908 or of a law of an external Territory relating to quarantine.