Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00598:clause:1_274
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00598
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 274
Character Range: 704895–706227

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.