Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1992 No. 194 of 1992 - SECT 65

65.(1) Within one month after receiving such an application, the Minister
must:

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

   (b)  reconsider the order; and

   (c)  by instrument in writing, confirm, revoke or vary the order; and

   (d)  inform the Director accordingly.

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

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

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

        (i)    stating that the order has been revoked or varied, as the case
               requires; and

        (ii)   if the order is varied-setting out a copy of the order as so
               varied.

(3) The Minister may at any time revoke the order even if an application for
its reconsideration has not been made.

(4) The Minister must not revoke the order under this section unless he or she
is satisfied that none of the grounds set out in section 59 apply in relation
to the order.

(5) The Minister must not vary the order unless he or she is satisfied that
the order as varied adequately addresses the grounds set out in section 59
that apply in relation to the order at the time of the variation.

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