Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Before giving the Board a direction under subsection 18(1), the responsible Ministers must:
(a) send a draft of the direction to the Board; and
(b) invite the Board to make a submission to the responsible Ministers on the draft direction within a time limit specified by the responsible Ministers; and
(c) consider any submission that is received from the Board within that time limit.
(2) If:
(a) the responsible Ministers give the Board a direction under subsection 18(1); and
(b) the Board made a submission to the responsible Ministers on a draft of the direction within the time limit specified by the responsible Ministers;
the submission is to be tabled in each House of the Parliament with the direction.
Note: For tabling of the direction, see section 38 of the Legislation Act 2003 .
(3) A time limit specified under this section must be reasonable.