Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) The Director of Biosecurity must appoint, in writing, external persons to be members of a scientific advisory group.
(2) At any stage in the process of conducting a BIRA, the Director of Biosecurity may (orally or in writing) request the scientific advisory group to examine and provide comments on any aspect of the BIRA.
(3) If the scientific advisory group receives a request to examine and provide comments on an aspect of a BIRA, the scientific advisory group must, after completing its examination, give its comments and any findings to the Director of Biosecurity in the form requested by the Director of Biosecurity.
Note: The comments and any findings given by the scientific advisory
group must be considered by the Director of Biosecurity in preparing the
provisional BIRA report (see paragraph 26(2)(c)).