New South Wales Consolidated Acts

THREATENED SPECIES CONSERVATION ACT 1995 - SECT 56

56 Director-General to prepare recovery plans

(1) The Director-General may prepare a recovery plan for each endangered species (other than a species presumed extinct), population and ecological community and each critically endangered species and ecological community to promote the recovery of the species, population or ecological community to a position of viability in nature.

(2) The Director-General may also prepare recovery plans for vulnerable species.

(3) The Director-General may also prepare recovery plans for vulnerable ecological communities.

(4) A recovery plan under this Act may contain provisions for more than one species, population or ecological community and may be made for part of a range of a species, population or ecological community.

(6) If the Director-General decides to prepare a recovery plan for a vulnerable ecological community, the recovery plan is to be prepared within 5 years after that decision is made.