HERITAGE ACT 2017 (NO. 7 OF 2017) - SECT 12 Assessment criteria regarding cultural heritage significance

HERITAGE ACT 2017 (NO. 7 OF 2017) - SECT 12

In determining assessment criteria for inclusion of places and objects in the Heritage Register under section 11(1)(k), the Heritage Council must have regard to the following matters—

        (a)     historical importance, association with or relationship to the State's history;

        (b)     good design or aesthetic characteristics;

        (c)     scientific or technical innovations or achievements;

        (d)     social or cultural associations;

        (e)     potential to educate, illustrate or provide further scientific investigation in relation to the State's cultural heritage;

        (f)     importance in exhibiting a richness, diversity or unusual integration of features;

        (g)     rarity or uniqueness of a place or object;

        (h)     the representative nature of a place or object as part of a class or type of places or objects;

              (i)     methods of establishing the extent to which land or objects nominated for inclusion in the Heritage Register in association with a registered place or a place nominated for inclusion are integral to the State-level cultural heritage significance of the place;

        (j)     any other matter which is relevant to the determination of State-level cultural heritage significance.