Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00598:clause:1_290
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00598
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 290
Character Range: 719911–720971

290  Consultation on plans
 (1) Before making a wildlife conservation plan under subsection 285(1) or (5), the Minister must:
 (a) 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
 (b) give a copy of it, together with a notice of a kind referred to in subsection (2), to the Scientific Committee; and
 (c) cause the notice to be published:
 (i) in the Gazette; and
 (ii) in a daily newspaper that circulates generally in each State, and self‑governing Territory; and
 (iii) in any other way required by the regulations (if any).
 (2) The notice must:
 (a) specify the places where copies of the proposed plan may be purchased; and
 (b) invite persons to make written comments about the proposed plan; and
 (c) specify:
 (i) an address for lodgment of comments; and
 (ii) a day by which comments must be made.
 (3) The day specified must not be a day occurring within 3 months after the notice is published in the Gazette.