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subject of the plan; and
       (e) the role and interests of Indigenous people in the conservation of Australia's biodiversity.
    (4) A threat abatement plan may:
       (a) state the estimated duration and cost of the threat abatement process; and
       (b) identify organisations or persons who will be involved in evaluating the performance of the threat abatement plan; and
       (c) specify any major ecological matters (other than the species or communities threatened by the key threatening process that is the subject of the plan) that will be affected by the plan's implementation.
    (5) Subsection (4) does not limit the matters that a threat abatement plan may include.

Section 274 Scientific Committee to advise on plans
    (1) The Minister must obtain and consider the advice of the Scientific Committee on:
       (a) the content of recovery and threat abatement plans; and
       (b) the times within which, and the order in which, such plans should be made.
    (2) In giving advice about a recovery plan, the Scientific Committee must take into account the following matters:
       (a) the degree of threat to the survival in nature of the species or ecological community in question;
       (b) the potential for the species or community to recover;
       (c) the genetic distinctiveness of the species or community;
       (d) the importance of the species or community to the ecosystem;
       (e) the value to humanity of the species or community;
       (f) the efficient and effective use of the resources allocated to the conservation of species and ecological communities.
    (3) In giving advice about a threat abatement plan, the Scientific Committee must take into account the following matters:
       (a) the degree of threat that the key threatening process in question poses to the survival in nature of species and ecological communities;
       (b) the potential of species and ecological communities so threatened to recover;
       (c) the efficient and effective use of the resources allocated to the conservation of species and ecological communities.

Section 279 Variation of plans by the Minister
    (1) The Minister may, at any time, review a recovery plan or threat abatement plan that has been made or adopted under this Subdivision and consider whether a variation of it is necessary.
    (2) Each plan must be reviewed by the Minister at intervals of not longer than 5 years.
    (3) If the Minister considers that a variation of a plan is necessary, the Minister may, subject to subsections (4), (5), (6) and (7), vary the plan.
    (4) The Minister must not vary a plan, unless the plan, as so varied, continues to meet the requirements of section 270 or 271, as the case requires.
    (5) Before varying a plan, the Minister must obtain and consider advice from the Scientific Committee on the content