17ARegister of persons concerned about plans of management

#### 17A Register of persons concerned about plans of management (1) AFMA must maintain a register containing a list of the names and postal addresses of persons and organisations who are to be notified of, or of determinations affecting the preparation of, draft plans of management. (2) As soon as is practicable after the commencement of this section and on each anniversary of that commencement, AFMA must give public notice: (a) inviting persons and organisations to have their names and postal addresses entered on the register; and (b) in the case of the second or a later notice—inviting persons and organisations on the register (if any) to have their names and postal addresses left on the register. (3) A notice must state that the acceptance of an invitation: (a) is to be in writing, sent to AFMA at a place specified in the notice and accompanied by particulars of the name and postal address of the acceptor; and (b) is to be given: (i) in the case of a person, or organisation, in existence on the publication of the notice—within one month after that publication; and (ii) in any other case—within 12 months after that publication. (4) Where a person or organisation accepts an invitation in the way required by the notice, AFMA is to enter, or retain, the name and postal address of the person or organisation on the register. (5) AFMA may vary the address on the register of a person or organisation at the written request of the person or organisation. (6) AFMA must remove the name and address of a person or organisation from the register if: (a) in the case of a name and address that was on the register before the most recent notice under subsection (2)—the invitation to keep that name and address on the register was not accepted within one month after the publication of that notice; or (b) the person or organisation makes a written request for the removal; or (c) AFMA becomes satisfied that: (i) in the case of a natural person—the person has died; or (ii) in any other case—the person or organisation has ceased to exist. (7) In subsection (2), a reference to public notice is a reference to a notice published: (a) in the Gazette; and (b) in each State and internal Territory in a newspaper circulating generally in that State or Territory; and (c) in each external Territory that the Minister considers appropriate (if any) in a newspaper circulating generally in that external Territory.