Environmental Protection (Environmentally Sensitive Areas) Notice 2005 (WA)

Western Australia Environmental Protection Act 1986 Environmental Protection (Environmentally Sensitive Areas) Notice 2005 Western Australia Environmental Protection (Environmentally Sensitive Areas) Notice 2005 Contents 1. Citation 1 2. Commencement 1 3. Terms used in this notice 1 4. Declaration of environmentally sensitive areas 3 Notes Compilation table 6 Defined terms Western Australia Environmental Protection Act 1986 Environmental Protection (Environmentally Sensitive Areas) Notice 2005

1. Citation This notice is the Environmental Protection (Environmentally Sensitive Areas) Notice 2005.

2. Commencement This notice comes into operation on the day on which it is published in the Gazette.

3. Terms used in this notice In this notice — defined wetland means — (a) a wetland included in the List of Wetlands of International Importance kept under the Ramsar Convention; (b) a nationally important wetland as defined in "A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia" (2001), 3rd edition, published by the Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra; (c) a wetland designated as a conservation category wetland in the geomorphic wetland maps held by, and available from, the Department; (d) a wetland mapped in Pen, L. "A Systematic Overview of Environmental Values of the Wetlands, Rivers and Estuaries of the Busselton-Walpole Region" (1997), published by the Water and Rivers Commission, Perth; and (e) a wetland mapped in V & C Semeniuk Research Group "Mapping and Classification of Wetlands from Augusta to Walpole in the South West of Western Australia" (1997), published by the Water and Rivers Commission, Perth; ecological community means a naturally occurring biological assemblage that occurs in a particular type of habitat; maintenance area, of a stretch of road or railway, means any area in the reserve for that stretch of road or railway that is lawfully cleared; Ramsar Convention means the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat done at Ramsar, Iran, on 2 February 1971, as in force for Australia in accordance with the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 of the Commonwealth, and set out in Australian Treaty Series 1975 No. 48; rare flora means flora that is declared to be rare flora under section 23F of the Wildlife Conservation Act 1950; threatened ecological community means an ecological community that — (a) has been determined by the Minister to be a threatened ecological community; and (b) is referred to in the list of threatened ecological communities maintained by the chief executive officer of the department of the Public Service principally assisting in the administration of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984.