294Report of review

#### 294 Report of review (1) The Climate Change Authority must: (a) prepare a report of a review under section 293; and (b) give the report to the Minister; and (c) as soon as practicable after giving the report to the Minister, publish the report on the Climate Change Authority’s website. (2) The Minister must cause copies of the report to be tabled in each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after receiving the report. Recommendations (3) The report may set out recommendations to the Commonwealth Government. (4) In formulating a recommendation that the Commonwealth Government should take particular action, the Climate Change Authority must analyse the costs and benefits of that action. (5) Subsection (4) does not prevent the Climate Change Authority from taking other matters into account in formulating a recommendation. (6) If a report sets out one or more recommendations to the Commonwealth Government, the report must set out the Climate Change Authority’s reasons for those recommendations. Government response to recommendations (7) If a report sets out one or more recommendations to the Commonwealth Government: (a) as soon as practicable after receiving the report, the Minister must cause to be prepared a statement setting out the Commonwealth Government’s response to each of the recommendations; and (b) within 6 months after receiving the report, the Minister must cause copies of the statement to be tabled in each House of the Parliament. (8) The Commonwealth Government’s response to the recommendations may have regard to the views of the following: (a) the Regulator; (b) such other persons as the Minister considers relevant.