WORLD HERITAGE PROPERTIES CONSERVATION ACT 1983 No. 5 of 1983 - SECT 8 Sites to which section 11 applies

WORLD HERITAGE PROPERTIES CONSERVATION ACT 1983 No. 5 of 1983 - SECT 8

8. (1) It is hereby declared that it is necessary to enact this section,
section 11 and sub-sections 13 (7) and 14 (5) as special laws for the people
of the Aboriginal race.

(2) A reference in this section to an Aboriginal site is a reference to a
site -

   (a)  that is, or is situated within, identified property; and

   (b)  the protection or conservation of which is, whether by reason of the
        presence on the site of artefacts or relics or otherwise, of
        particular significance to the people of the Aboriginal race.

(3) Where the Governor-General is satisfied that an Aboriginal site is being
or is likely to be damaged or destroyed or that any artefacts or relics
situated on an Aboriginal site are being or are likely to be damaged or
destroyed, he may, by Proclamation, declare that site to be a site to which
section 11 applies.