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BIOLOGICAL CONTROL ACT 1985 - SECT 24
Notice of proposed agent organisms
(1) Where the Council has unanimously recommended to the Authority that
prescribed organisms of a particular kind should be agent organisms, the
Authority shall publish in the Gazette (and, if the Council has so
recommended, in the Commonwealth Gazette), and may publish in such newspapers
or journals as the Authority thinks appropriate, a notice that the Authority
is contemplating declaring those organisms to be agent organisms.
(2) A
notice under subsection (1) in relation to organisms of a particular kind (in
this subsection referred to as the
"relevant organisms" ) shall-- (a) set out particulars identifying the
relevant organisms,
(b) specify the organisms which it is intended to control
by the release of the relevant organisms,
(c) set out brief particulars of
the manner in which the relevant organisms would control the organisms
specified in the notice in accordance with paragraph (b),
(d) state that the
Council has unanimously recommended that the relevant organisms should be
declared to be agent organisms,
(e) where the recommendation of the Council
followed an agent application in relation to the organisms--inform the public
that copies of the agent application can be perused at a place specified in
the notice, and
(f) invite any persons who object to, or support, the
relevant organisms being declared to be agent organisms to submit written
particulars of the grounds for that objection or support, as the case may be,
to the Authority within the period of 6 weeks after the date of the
publication of the notice in the Gazette, or within such further period as the
Authority (either before or after the expiration of that period) allows.
(3)
Where the Authority publishes a notice under subsection (1) in relation to an
agent application, the Authority shall cause copies of the application to be
available for perusal at the place specified in the notice in accordance with
subsection (2) (e).
(4) Where the Council has recommended to the Authority
that 2 or more kinds of organisms should be agent organisms for the purpose of
the control of the same population of particular organisms, a notice under
subsection (1) relating to one of those kinds may be combined with a notice
under that subsection relating to the other kind or kinds.
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