Section 282 — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Scientific Committee to advise on assistance

(1) The Scientific Committee is to advise the Minister on the conditions (if any) to which the giving of assistance under section 281 should be subject. (2) In giving advice about assistance for making or implementing 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 assistance for making or implementing 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.