ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 282 Scientific Committee to advise on assistance

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Scientific Committee to advise on assistance

(1): The Scientific Committee is to advise the Minister on the conditions (if any) to which the giving of assistance under section 281 should be subject.
(2): In giving advice about assistance for making or implementing 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 assistance for making or implementing 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.

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