Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 2014 - SECT 26

    (1)     The conservator—

        (a)     must take reasonable steps to implement the biodiversity research and monitoring program; and

        (b)     may commission another entity to implement all or part of the program.

    (2)     The conservator must at the end of each biodiversity research and monitoring program—

        (a)     prepare a report on the implementation of the program (a biodiversity research and monitoring program report ); and

        (b)     make the report publicly accessible as soon as possible, but not later than 3 months, after the end of the program.

Example—publicly accessible

published on the directorate website

    (3)     However, if the conservator considers that a plant or animal could be threatened by the disclosure of a particular detail in a finding, the conservator—

        (a)     need not include the particular detail; but

        (b)     must instead include a general statement of the finding.