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Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988
16DThe Committee's preliminary recommendation
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16D The Committee's preliminary recommendation
(1) The Committee, after assessing a nomination, must make a preliminary recommendation that the nomination should either be supported, with or without variation, or not be supported.
(2) When the Committee has made a preliminary recommendation it must as soon as possible—
(a) notify the nominator (other than the Committee) of the nomination; and
(b) publish the Committee's preliminary recommendation and the reasons for it on the Internet together with a statement that submissions may be made on the preliminary recommendation to the Committee within 30 days after publication of the preliminary recommendation; and
(c) publish a notice of the making of the preliminary recommendation in the Government Gazette that includes a statement that submissions may be made on the preliminary recommendation to the Committee within 30 days after publication of the preliminary recommendation.
(3) After publishing a preliminary recommendation the Committee must allow 30 days to elapse for public comment to be made on the preliminary recommendation.
S. 16E inserted by No. 28/2019 s. 11.