Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

HISTORIC CULTURAL HERITAGE ACT 1995 - SECT 15

      (1) The Heritage Council is to keep a register to be known as the Tasmanian Heritage Register.

      (2) The Heritage Register –

(a) is to be in any form the Heritage Council considers appropriate; and

(b) may consist of more than one document or record.

      (3) The Heritage Council is to enter in the Heritage Register details of the following:

(a) any place provisionally entered under section 18(2);

(b) any place entered on a permanent basis under section 21(1);

(c) any heritage area;

(d) any heritage agreement;

(e) any variation of a heritage agreement under section 49;

(f) the termination of a heritage agreement under section 49;

(g) any order made under this Act;

(h) any shipwreck entered under section 65;

(i) any protected zone;

(j) any certificate issued under section 83;

(k) any other information the Heritage Council considers appropriate.

      (4) An entry of a place in the Heritage Register is to –

(a) identify the place by reference to its rectangular grid co-ordinates on the Australian Map Grid or its latitude and longitude on the Australian Geodetic Datum; and

(b) define the boundaries of the place by reference to a plan registered under the Survey Co-ordination Act 1944; and

(c) describe the place; and

(d) state the historic cultural heritage significance of the place.

      (5) Any person may inspect the Heritage Register during normal business hours.

      (6) The expressions "Australian Geodetic Datum" and the "Australian Map Grid" –

(a) have the meanings assigned to those expressions by the National Mapping Council of Australia; and

(b) may be read as a reference to any other similar expressions relating to any geodetic reference system which may replace the system represented by those expressions.