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THREATENED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1995 - SECT 27 Threat abatement plans

THREATENED SPECIES PROTECTION ACT 1995 - SECT 27

Division 6 - Threat abatement plans Threat abatement plans

(1)  The Secretary may prepare a threat abatement plan in respect of any process which, in the opinion of the Secretary, is a threatening process.
(2)  A threat abatement plan –
(a) may relate to one or more taxa of flora and fauna; and
(b) is to specify a process that threatens any listed taxon; and
(c) is to specify objectives for removing or controlling the threat; and
(d) may specify research needed and actions required by which the threatening process is to be controlled and managed; and
(e) may specify the resources required to carry out those actions.
(3)  The Secretary must, within 30 days after preparing a draft threat abatement plan, give public notification of the draft plan and also notify the making of the plan in a newspaper circulating generally in the area to which the plan applies.
(4)  The Secretary must, after considering any public comments received during the period of 30 days after public notification of the draft plan, make, with the Minister's approval, a final threat abatement plan.