Queensland Consolidated Acts

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL ACT 1987 - SECT 3B

3B Council recommendations, decisions and approvals

(1) For the purposes of this Act—

(a) a recommendation or decision of, or an approval by, the Council has effect whether or not it was made or given while the Council was in session; and

(b) a recommendation of the Council shall be taken to be unanimous if, and only if, the recommendation is a recommendation of all the members of the Council; and

(c) an approval by the Council shall be taken to be unanimous if, and only if, the approval is an approval by all the members of the Council; and

(d) where a person is authorised to act as a member of the Council in place of another person the first mentioned person whilst so acting is to be taken to be a member of the Council and the other person is not to be taken to be a member of the Council.

(2) A reference in this Act to a recommendation by the Council that organisms of a particular kind should be declared to be agent organisms for the purposes of this Act includes a reference to a recommendation that organisms of a particular kind should be so declared if organisms to which a target recommendation applies are declared to be target organisms for the purposes of this Act.