ABORIGINAL HERITAGE ACT 2006 - SECT 21 Ownership of secret or sacred objects before the Aboriginal Heritage Amendment Act 2016
ABORIGINAL HERITAGE ACT 2006 - SECT 21
Ownership of secret or sacred objects before the Aboriginal Heritage Amendment Act 2016(1) This section applies to an Aboriginal object that—
(a) is a secret or sacred object; and
S. 21(1)(b) amended by No. 11/2016 s. 19(2).
(b) is, immediately before the commencement of this section, in the custody of a State entity, or, on or after that commencement but before the commencement of section 20 of the Aboriginal Heritage Amendment Act 2016 , comes into the custody of a State entity.
(2) Aboriginal people who have a traditional or familial link with the object, if they are not already the owners of the object, become the owners—
(a) if the object was in the custody of a State entity immediately before the commencement of this section, on that commencement; or
(b) in any other case, when the object comes into the custody of a State entity.
S. 21A inserted by No. 11/2016 s. 20.