Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PROTECTION OF MOVABLE CULTURAL HERITAGE ACT 1986 - SECT 7

             (1)   A reference in section 8 to the movable cultural heritage of Australia is a reference to objects that are of importance to Australia , or to a particular part of Australia , for ethnological, archaeological, historical, literary, artistic, scientific or technological reasons, being objects falling within one or more of the following categories:

                     (a)   objects recovered from:

                              (i)   the soil or inland waters of Australia ;

                             (ii)   the coastal sea of Australia or the waters above the continental shelf of Australia ; or

                            (iii)   the seabed or subsoil beneath the sea or waters referred to in subparagraph (ii);

                     (b)   objects relating to members of the Aboriginal race of Australia and descendants of the indigenous inhabitants of the Torres Strait Islands ;

                     (c)   objects of ethnographic art or ethnography;

                     (d)   military objects;

                     (e)   objects of decorative art;

                      (f)   objects of fine art;

                     (g)   objects of scientific or technological interest;

                     (h)   books, records, documents or photographs, graphic, film or television material or sound recordings;

                      (j)   any other prescribed categories.

             (2)   The generality of paragraph (1)(j) is not limited by any of the other paragraphs of subsection (1).

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