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BIOLOGICAL CONTROL ACT 1985 - SECT 30
Notice of proposed declaration under section 29
30 Notice of proposed declaration under section 29
(1) Where the Authority is contemplating making a declaration under
section 29, the Authority may, subject to subsection (2), publish in the
Gazette and in such newspapers or journals as the Authority considers
appropriate a notice that the Authority is contemplating making that
declaration.
(2) The Authority shall not publish a notice under subsection
(1) in respect of an organism unless-- (a) the Authority has first consulted
the Council regarding the appropriateness of action under this section in
respect of that organism, and
(b) the Council has unanimously recommended
that the notice be published.
(3) A notice under subsection (1) shall-- (a)
set out particulars identifying the organisms that the Authority is
contemplating declaring to be target organisms,
(b) set out particulars
identifying the organisms that the Authority is contemplating declaring to be
agent organisms,
(c) identify the occasions known to the Authority on which
the organisms referred to in paragraph (b) were released, and
(d) invite any
persons who object to, or support, the declaration being made to submit
written particulars of the grounds for that objection or support, as the case
may be, to the Authority within 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.
(4) Where the
Authority publishes a notice under subsection (1) in relation to a
contemplated declaration, the Authority shall not make the declaration unless
and until the Authority has considered any submissions in response to an
invitation referred to in subsection (3) (d) in relation to the declaration.
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