9ARegister of persons concerned about amendments of Schedule 6 or declarations of management programs or controlled specimens

##### 9A Register of persons concerned about amendments of Schedule 6 or declarations of management programs or controlled specimens (1) The Designated Authority must maintain a register containing a list of the names and postal addresses of persons and organisations who are to be notified of: (aa) proposals for declarations under section 9, where the declarations relate to the amendment of Schedule 6; and (a) proposals for declarations of approved management programs under section 10; and (b) proposals for declarations of controlled specimens under section 10A. (2) As soon as practicable after the commencement of this section and on each anniversary of that commencement, the Designated Authority 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 given when there is a person or organisation on the register—inviting persons and organisations on the register 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 the Designated Authority at a place specified in the notice accompanied, except in the case of an invitation under paragraph (2)(b), 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, the Designated Authority is to enter, or retain, the name and postal address of the person or organisation on the register. (5) The Designated Authority may vary the address on the register of a person or organisation at the written request of the person or organisation. (6) The Designated Authority 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) the Designated Authority 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.