Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 274

  (1)   The Minister must obtain and consider the advice of the Scientific Committee on:

  (a)   the content of recovery and threat abatement plans; and

  (b)   the times within which, and the order in which, such plans should be made.

  (2)   In giving advice about a recovery plan, the Scientific Committee must take into account the following matters:

  (a)   the degree of threat to the survival in nature of the species or ecological community in question;

  (b)   the potential for the species or community to recover;

  (c)   the genetic distinctiveness of the species or community;

  (d)   the importance of the species or community to the ecosystem;

  (e)   the value to humanity of the species or community;

  (f)   the efficient and effective use of the resources allocated to the conservation of species and ecological communities.

  (3)   In giving advice about a threat abatement plan, the Scientific Committee must take into account the following matters:

  (a)   the degree of threat that the key threatening process in question poses to the survival in nature of species and ecological communities;

  (b)   the potential of species and ecological communities so threatened to recover;

  (c)   the efficient and effective use of the resources allocated to the conservation of species and ecological communities.