22BPublic consultation for minor variation

22B Public consultation for minor variation

s. 22B

(1) Before making a minor variation to a national environment protection measure, the Council must publish a notice—

(a) stating how the draft of the proposed variation and the explanatory statement may be obtained; and

(b) inviting submissions to the Council on the proposed variation, or on the explanatory statement, within a specified period.

(2) A notice must—

(a) be published in the Government Gazette; and

(b) in each participating State or Territory concerned also be published, on at least 1 day during the month when the Government Gazette notice is published, in a newspaper circulating in that State or Territory.

(3) The period specified in each notice under subsection (1) must end no less than 1 month after the day on which subsection (2)(b) has been fully complied with in all participating jurisdictions.

S. 22C inserted by No. 65/2003 s. 7.