Section 274 — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: 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.