Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Council may vary or revoke any national environment protection measure.
(2) If the Council intends to vary or revoke a national environment protection measure, the Council must publish a notice specifying the measure that the Council intends varying or revoking.
(3) The 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.
(4) Sections 15, 17, 18 and 19 apply to a variation or revocation of a national environment protection measure as if:
(a) a reference to making a national environment protection measure were a reference to a variation or revocation of a national environment protection measure, as the case may be; and
(b) a reference to a national environment protection measure were a reference to the variation or revocation of such a measure, as the case may be; and
(c) a reference to a proposed national environment protection measure were a reference to a proposed variation or proposed revocation of such a measure, as the case may be; and
(d) the reference in section 17 to the day on which paragraph 16(2)(b) has been fully complied with in all participating jurisdictions were a reference to the day on which paragraph ( 3)(b) of this section has been fully complied with in all participating jurisdictions.
(5) Subsections ( 2) to (4) do not apply to a minor variation of a national environment protection measure under Division 2A.