Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989

Trade in endangered, threatened, and exploited species

10: Application for permit or certificate

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"Apply in writing to trade endangered animals or plants"

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If you want to trade in a species that is endangered, threatened, or exploited, you must apply in writing to the Director-General for a permit or certificate. You need to include your full name and address, the type of trade, the species and number of specimens, and the country the specimens will be sent to or from. Your application must have all the required information, and you may need to provide more details if the Director-General asks for them.

You must make a separate application for each group of specimens you want to trade, unless the Director-General decides otherwise. If the species is controlled under another Act or regulations, you need to get permission under those rules before applying for a permit or certificate. When you apply to export or re-export a specimen, you may need to include the results of an analysis required by the Director-General under section 43A.

You also need to pay the required fee when you apply for a permit or certificate.

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9: Trade in endangered, threatened, or exploited species, or

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Part 1Trade in endangered, threatened, and exploited species

10Application for permit or certificate

Every person who proposes to trade in any specimen of an endangered, threatened, or exploited species shall apply in writing to the Director-General for the appropriate permit or certificate that, if granted, would authorise that trade.
Every application shall specify—
the full name and address of the applicant:
the type of trade to which the application relates:
the species and the number of specimens of that species to be traded:
the country to or from which the specimens are to be conveyed.

Except as the Director-General may decide, a separate application shall be required for each consignment of specimens of an endangered, threatened, or exploited species.
No person shall make an application under this section to trade in any specimen of an endangered, threatened, or exploited species where trade in that specimen is subject to controls under any other Act or regulations, unless authorisation in respect of such trade has first been obtained under that Act or those regulations.
Every applicant for a permit or certificate shall furnish to the Director-General, in addition to the particulars required under subsection (2), such further information as the Director-General may require.
Without limiting the generality of subsection (5), every applicant to whom that subsection applies must include, with every application for the export or re-export of a specimen in respect of which application the Director-General has required any analysis to be carried out pursuant to section 43A, the results of such analysis.
Every applicant for a permit or certificate shall pay the prescribed fee.

Notes

Section 10(5A): inserted, on 14 May 1998, by section 3 of the Trade in Endangered Species Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 17).