(1) Before making a wildlife conservation plan under subsection 285(1) or (5), the Minister must:
(a) take reasonable steps to ensure that copies of the proposed plan are available for purchase, for a reasonable price, at prescribed places in each State and self - governing Territory; and
(b) give a copy of it, together with a notice of a kind referred to in subsection (2), to the Scientific Committee; and
(c) cause the notice to be published:
(i) in the Gazette ; and
(ii) in a daily newspaper that circulates generally in each State, and self - governing Territory; and
(iii) in any other way required by the regulations (if any).
(2) The notice must:
(a) specify the places where copies of the proposed plan may be purchased; and
(b) invite persons to make written comments about the proposed plan; and
(c) specify:
(i) an address for lodgment of comments; and
(ii) a day by which comments must be made.
(3) The day specified must not be a day occurring within 3 months after the notice is published in the Gazette .