Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 469

  (1)   Upon receiving the application, the Minister must:

  (a)   seek the Secretary's advice on the application; and

  (b)   reconsider the conservation order or the decision on review, as the case requires; and

  (c)   by written instrument:

  (i)   confirm, vary or revoke the order; or

  (ii)   confirm or vary the decision on review; and

  (d)   cause the Secretary to be informed accordingly.

  (2)   As soon as practicable after being so informed, the Secretary must:

  (a)   notify the applicant in writing of the result of the reconsideration; and

  (b)   if the order is revoked or varied or the decision on review is varied--cause to be published in the Gazette , and in any other way required by the regulations, a notice:

  (i)   stating that fact; and

  (ii)   in the case of a variation--setting out a copy of the order or decision as so varied.

  (3)   Immediately after a variation of the order, the order continues in effect as so varied.