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BIOLOGICAL CONTROL ACT 1987 - SECT 30
Notice of proposed declaration under s 29
30 Notice of proposed declaration under s 29
(1) Where the Authority is contemplating making a declaration under section 29
, the Authority, subject to subsection (2) , may publish in the Gazette and in
such newspapers or journals as the Authority considers appropriate a
notification that the Authority is contemplating making that declaration.
(2)
The Authority shall not publish a notification under subsection (1) in respect
of an organism unless— (a) the Authority has first consulted the Council
regarding the appropriateness of action under this section in respect of that
organism; and
(b) the Council has unanimously recommended that the notice be
published.
(3) A notification under subsection (1) shall— (a) set out
particulars identifying the organisms that the Authority is contemplating
declaring to be target organisms; and
(b) set out particulars identifying the
organisms that the Authority is contemplating declaring to be agent organisms;
and
(c) identify the occasions known to the Authority on which the organisms
referred to in paragraph (b) were released; and
(d) invite any persons who
object to, or support, the declaration being made to submit written
particulars of the grounds for that objection or support, as the case may be,
to the Authority within 6 weeks after the date of the publication of the
notice in the Gazette, or within such further period as the Authority (either
before or after the expiration of that period) allows.
(4) Where the
Authority publishes a notification under subsection (1) in relation to a
contemplated declaration, the Authority shall not make the declaration unless
and until the Authority has considered any submissions in response to an
invitation referred to in subsection (3) (d) in relation to the declaration.
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