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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
96BStandard guidelines
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96B Standard guidelines
(1) The Minister may prepare one or more sets of standard guidelines, in writing, for the preparation of draft public environment reports about the relevant impacts of actions.
Note: See also subsection 96A(3).
(2) A set of standard guidelines must set out requirements for the content and presentation of draft public environment reports about the relevant impacts of actions.
(3) Without limiting subsections (1) and (2), a set of standard guidelines may relate to:
(a) actions that are proposed to be taken by a specified industry sector; or
(b) actions for which a specified provision of Part 3 is a controlling provision.
(4) A set of standard guidelines made under this section is not a legislative instrument.