Victorian Consolidated Regulations

ABORIGINAL HERITAGE REGULATIONS 2007

S.R. No. 41/2007
Version incorporating amendments as at 11 June 2009

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Regulation Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   1.      Objectives
   2.      Authorising provisions
   3.      Commencement
   4.      Definitions

   PART 1A-EXEMPT ACTIVITIES OR OPERATIONS

   4A.     Buying an Aboriginal object at a public auction

   PART 2-CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT PLANS

           Division 1-When is a cultural heritage management plan required?

   5.      Purpose
   6.      When a cultural heritage management plan is required

           Division 2-Exempt activities

   7.      Application
   8.      One or two dwellings
   9.      Buildings and works ancillary to a dwelling
   10.     Services to a dwelling
   11.     Alteration of buildings
   12.     Minor works
   13.     Demolition
   14.     Consolidation of land
   15.     Subdivision of existing building
   16.     Amendments to a statutory authorisation
   17.     Jetties
   18.     Sea-bed
   19.     Emergency works

           Division 3-Areas of cultural heritage sensitivity

   20.     Purpose
   21.     Application
   22.     Registered cultural heritage places
   23.     Waterways
   24.     Prior waterways
   25.     Ancient lakes
   26.     Declared Ramsar wetlands
   27.     Coastal Crown land
   28.     Coastal land
   29.     Parks
   30.     High plains
   31.     Koo Wee Rup Plain
   32.     Greenstone outcrops
   33.     Stony rises
   34.     Volcanic cones of western Victoria
   35.     Caves
   36.     Lunettes
   37.     Dunes
   38.     Sand sheets

           Division 4-Areas of cultural heritage sensitivity specified in Schedule 1.

   39.     Purpose
   40.     Areas of cultural heritage sensitivity
   41.     A registered cultural heritage place is an area of cultural
           heritage sensitivity

           Division 5-High impact activities

   42.     Purpose
   43.     Buildings and works for specified uses
   44.     Constructing specified items of infrastructure
   45.     Dwellings
   46.     Subdivision of land
   47.     Alpine resorts
   48.     Activities requiring earth resource authorisations
   48A.    Extraction or removal of stone
   49.     Extraction or removal of sand or sandstone
   50.     Searching for stone
   51.     Extraction or removal of loose stone on agricultural land on
           the Victorian Volcanic Plain
   52.     Timber production
   53.     Dams
   54.     Use of land

   PART 3-STANDARDS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT PLAN

           Division 1-Assessments

   55.     Purpose
   56.     Types of assessment
   57.     What does a desktop assessment include?
   58.     When is a standard assessment required?
   59.     What does a standard assessment include?
   60.     When is a complex assessment required?
   61.     What does a complex assessment include?

           Division 2-Preparation of a cultural heritage management plan

   62.     Purpose
   63.     Reason for preparation of a cultural heritage management plan
   64.     Content of a cultural heritage management plan
   65.     Notice of representative

   PART 4-STANDARDS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A CULTURAL HERITAGE AGREEMENT

   66.     Purpose
   67.     Maps included in cultural heritage agreements

   PART 5-FEES

   68.     Definitions
   69.     Fees payable under section 36(2) of the Act
   70.     Part of fee forwarded to registered Aboriginal party or
           parties under section 38(3) of the Act
   71.     Fee payable under section 62(3) of the Act-only one
           relevant registered Aboriginal party
   72.     Fee payable under section 62(3) of the Act-2 relevant
           registered Aboriginal parties
   73.     Fee payable under section 62(3) of the Act-3 or more
           relevant registered Aboriginal parties
   74.     Fee payable under section 147(2) of the Act

   PART 6-TRANSITIONAL

   75.     Statutory authorisations
   76.     Applications for statutory authorisations
   77.     Archaeological surveys
   78.     Consents to disturb
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           SCHEDULE 1.
           SCHEDULE 2-Cultural Heritage Management Plans
           1. Sponsor
           2. Owner or occupier
           3. Cultural heritage advisor
           4. Registered Aboriginal parties
           5. Notices relating to plan
           6. Activity
           7. Activity area
           8. Details of assessment
           9. Details of subsurface testing and excavation
           10. Written report
           11. Aboriginal cultural heritage
           12. Matters considered in preparation of plan
           13. Contingency plans
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details