Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Before making a national environment protection measure, the Council must publish a notice:
(a) stating how the draft of the proposed measure and the impact statement may be obtained; and
(b) inviting submissions to the Council on the proposed measure, or on the impact statement, within a specified period.
(2) A notice must:
(a) be published in the Gazette ; and
(b) so far as each participating State or Territory is concerned--also be published, on at least 2 days during the month when the Gazette notice is published, in a newspaper circulating in that State or Territory.
(3) The period specified in each notice under subsection ( 1) must end not less than 2 months after the day on which paragraph ( 2)(b) has been fully complied with in all participating jurisdictions.