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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 290

Consultation on plans

  (1)   Before making a wildlife conservation plan under subsection   285(1) or (5), the Minister must:

  (a)   take reasonable steps to ensure that copies of the proposed plan are available for purchase, for a reasonable price, at prescribed places in each State and self - governing Territory; and

  (b)   give a copy of it, together with a notice of a kind referred to in subsection   (2), to the Scientific Committee; and

  (c)   cause the notice to be published:

  (i)   in the Gazette ; and

  (ii)   in a daily newspaper that circulates generally in each State, and self - governing Territory; and

  (iii)   in any other way required by the regulations (if any).

  (2)   The notice must:

  (a)   specify the places where copies of the proposed plan may be purchased; and

  (b)   invite persons to make written comments about the proposed plan; and

  (c)   specify:

  (i)   an address for lodgment of comments; and

  (ii)   a day by which comments must be made.

  (3)   The day specified must not be a day occurring within 3 months after the notice is published in the Gazette .


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