Section 469 — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Reconsideration of conservation orders and decisions on review

(1) Upon receiving the application, the Minister must: (a) seek the Secretary’s advice on the application; and (b) reconsider the conservation order or the decision on review, as the case requires; and (c) by written instrument: (i) confirm, vary or revoke the order; or (ii) confirm or vary the decision on review; and (d) cause the Secretary to be informed accordingly. (2) As soon as practicable after being so informed, the Secretary must: (a) notify the applicant in writing of the result of the reconsideration; and (b) if the order is revoked or varied or the decision on review is varied—cause to be published in the Gazette, and in any other way required by the regulations, a notice: (i) stating that fact; and (ii) in the case of a variation—setting out a copy of the order or decision as so varied. (3) Immediately after a variation of the order, the order continues in effect as so varied.