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).