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AUSTRALIAN HERITAGE COMMISSION AMENDMENT ACT 1990 No. 17 of 1991 - SECT 5

5. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by omitting paragraph (a) and substituting the following paragraph:
    "(a)   on its own motion or on the request of the Minister, to
give advice to the Minister, on matters relating to the national estate,
including advice relating to:

        (i)    action to identify, conserve, improve and present the national
               estate; and

        (ii)   expenditure by the Commonwealth for the identification,
               conservation, improvement and presentation of the national
               estate; and

        (iii)  the grant of financial or other assistance by the Commonwealth
               for the identification, conservation, improvement or
               presentation of the national estate;";

   (b)  by inserting after paragraph (d) the following paragraph:
    "(da)   subject to Part VA, to administer the National Estate
Grants Program, being the program devised for the grant by the Commonwealth,
in accordance with that Part, of financial assistance to the States and
internal Territories and to approved bodies for expenditure on National Estate
projects;".