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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 290

Consultation on plans
(1)
Before making a wildlife conservation plan under subsection 285(1) or (5), the Minister must:

(a)
take reasonable steps to ensure that copies of the proposed plan are available for purchase, for a reasonable price, at prescribed places in each State and self-governing Territory; and

(b)
give a copy of it, together with a notice of a kind referred to in subsection (2), to the Scientific Committee; and

(c)
cause the notice to be published:

(i)
in the Gazette ; and
(ii)
in a daily newspaper that circulates generally in each State, and self-governing Territory; and
(iii)
in any other way required by the regulations (if any).
(2)
The notice must:

(a)
specify the places where copies of the proposed plan may be purchased; and

(b)
invite persons to make written comments about the proposed plan; and

(c)
specify:

(i)
an address for lodgment of comments; and
(ii)
a day by which comments must be made.
(3)
The day specified must not be a day occurring within 3 months after the notice is published in the Gazette .


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