Section 290 — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: 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.