Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

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

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

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

cause the notice to be published:

in the Gazette; and

in a daily newspaper that circulates generally in each State, and self‑governing Territory; and

in any other way required by the regulations (if any).

The notice must:

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

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

specify:

an address for lodgment of comments; and

a day by which comments must be made.

The day specified must not be a day occurring within 3 months after the notice is published in the Gazette.