Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS ACT 1976 - SECT 18

             (1)  The Minister may:

                     (a)  reward the person who first notifies the Minister in accordance with section 17 of the location of any remains or article:

                              (i)  a description of the location of which, being a description sufficient to enable the remains or article to be located, had not previously been published in Australia; and

                             (ii)  in respect of which a declaration has, since the notification was made, been made under section 5 or which is a Dutch shipwreck or a Dutch relic or which is a historic shipwreck or a historic relic;

                     (b)  offer to reward, and reward the person who first furnishes to the Minister a description of the location of a historic shipwreck, or of a historic relic or historic relics, specified in the offer, being a description sufficient to enable the historic shipwreck or historic relic or historic relics to be located; and

                     (c)  reward any person who furnishes information leading to the conviction of a person for an offence against this Act.

             (2)  The reward of a person under subsection (1) shall be by way of:

                     (a)  the payment to the person of an amount not exceeding the prescribed amount; or

                     (b)  the giving to the person of a historic relic, plaque, model, replica or medallion;

or both.

             (3)  Payments by way of reward under this section shall be made out of money appropriated by the Parliament for the purpose of the control of historic shipwrecks.

             (4)  Articles referred to in paragraph (2)(b) that are required to be purchased by the Commonwealth shall be purchased out of money appropriated by the Parliament for the purpose of the control of historic shipwrecks.