ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 341ZB Heritage assessments and registers

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 341ZB

  (1)   A Commonwealth agency must do all of the following within the period mentioned in its heritage strategy:

  (a)   conduct a program to identify Commonwealth Heritage values for each place it owns or controls;

  (b)   produce a register that sets out, for each place it owns or controls, the Commonwealth Heritage values (if any) of that place;

  (c)   give the Minister a written report that includes:

  (i)   details of the program; and

  (ii)   a copy of the register.

  (2)   The regulations may prescribe all or any of the following:

  (a)   how Commonwealth heritage values may be identified for a place;

  (b)   matters a register must address;

  (c)   matters a report to the Minister must address.

  (3)   A Commonwealth agency must keep its register up to date.

  (4)   A register may be kept electronically.

  (5)   If a report under paragraph   (1)(c) indicates that a place owned or controlled by a Commonwealth agency may have one or more Commonwealth Heritage values, information from the report may be used or referred to in a nomination of the place for inclusion in the Commonwealth Heritage List.