57   Guidelines for recovery plans

(1)  The Director-General must, in preparing a recovery plan and in deciding which measures to include in it, have regard to the following:

(a)  the objects of this Act,

(b)  the likely social and economic consequences of the making of the plan,

(c)  the most efficient and effective use of available resources for the conservation of threatened species, populations and ecological communities,

(d)  the minimising of any significant adverse social and economic consequences.

(2)  The Director-General is to consider, when preparing a recovery plan, any measures by which the public may co-operate in the conservation of a threatened species, population or ecological community.

(3)  The Director-General is also to consider, when preparing a recovery plan, any special knowledge or interest that indigenous people may have in the species, population or ecological community concerned and in the measures to be contained in the plan (including the likely social, cultural and economic consequences of the making of the plan).