14Environmental flow guidelines—consultation

14 Environmental flow guidelines—consultation (1) After preparing draft guidelines under section 13, the director-general must prepare a notice (a consultation notice)— (a) containing a brief description of the draft guidelines; and (b) stating that copies of the draft guidelines are available for public inspection for a period (the consultation period) and at the place stated in the notice; and

Environmental flow guidelines Part 3 (c) inviting people to give written comments about the draft guidelines to the director-general in the consultation period. (2) The consultation period must be at least 60 days. (3) The consultation notice is a notifiable instrument. (4) The director-general must give additional public notice of the consultation notice. Note Public notice means notice on an ACT government website or in a daily newspaper circulating in the ACT (see Legislation Act, dict, pt 1). The requirement in s (4) is in addition to the requirement for notification on the legislation register as a notifiable instrument. (5) The director-general must consider any written comments received in the consultation period and may revise the draft guidelines in accordance with the comments as the director-general considers appropriate. (6) This section does not apply to a draft amendment of the environmental flow guidelines that is to make formal changes only.