Public consultation for minor variation
22B Public consultation for minor variation
(1) Before making a minor variation to a national environment protection measure, the Council must publish a notice:
(a) stating how the draft of the proposed variation and the explanatory statement may be obtained; and
(b) inviting submissions to the Council on the proposed variation or explanatory statement within a stated period.
The notice must:
be published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette; and
(b) in each participating State or Territory concerned – also be published, on at least one day during the month when the Gazette notice is published, in a newspaper circulating in the State or Territory.
(3) The period stated in the notice must end at least one month after the day on which subsection (2)(b) has been fully complied with in all participating jurisdictions.
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