Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts31. Conservation management plan to be laid before Legislative Assembly
(1) The Minister shall, within 3 sittings days of the Assembly after a conservation management plan has been accepted under section 30(6), cause it to be laid before the Legislative Assembly.
(2) The Legislative Assembly may, in pursuance of a motion notice of which is given within 7 sittings days after the conservation management plan is laid before it, pass a resolution disallowing the plan.
(3) If the Legislative Assembly does not pass a resolution in accordance with subsection (2), the conservation management plan comes into operation on the day immediately following the last day on which such a resolution could have been passed.
(4) If before the expiration of 7 sitting days after the conservation management plan has been laid before the Legislative Assembly:
(a) the Assembly expires or is prorogued; and
(b) notice of motion for the disallowance of the plan has not been given,
the plan shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to have been laid before the Legislative Assembly on the first sitting day of the Assembly after the Assembly so expires or is prorogued.
(5) If the Legislative Assembly passes a resolution in accordance with subsection (2) disallowing the conservation management plan, the Administrator shall direct the Council to prepare a new conservation management plan and the Council shall reconsider the matter and prepare a new plan and, for that purpose, section 30 applies accordingly.
(6) As soon as practicable after a conservation management plan comes into operation, the Minister shall publish a notice in the Gazette and in such newspapers circulating in the Territory as the Minister thinks fit, stating that the plan has come into operation and specifying an address or addresses where copies of the plan may be inspected or purchased.