Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 - SECT 18

Procedure for making or amending the Strategy

18. Procedure for making or amending the Strategy



(1) Before making the Strategy the Secretary must prepare a draft Strategy and
must publish notice of the draft Strategy in the Government Gazette and in a
newspaper circulating generally throughout the State.

(2) A notice must-

   (a)  be in the prescribed form; and

   (b)  state the date by which submissions must be made to the Secretary
        which must be at least 30 days after the date on which the notice is
        published; and

   (c)  specify the manner in which submissions must be made; and

   (d)  fix a time and place at which a copy of the draft Strategy will be
        available to the public for inspection.

(3) Any person may make submissions to the Secretary about the draft Strategy.



(4) After considering all the submissions made the Secretary may make the
Strategy either with or without changes.

(5) After the Strategy has been made the Secretary must publish notice of its
making in the Government Gazette and in a newspaper circulating generally
throughout the State.

(6) The procedures applicable to the making of the Strategy apply to the
making of an amendment to the Strategy which is not a minor amendment.





Division 2-Action statements and critical habitats