ABORIGINAL HERITAGE ACT 1972 - SECT 8
ABORIGINAL HERITAGE ACT 1972 - SECT 8
8 . Availability for traditional use
Where the Committee is
satisfied that a representative body of persons of Aboriginal descent who
usually live subject to Aboriginal customary law has an interest in a place or
object to which this Act applies that is of traditional and current importance
to it, and which is in the custody or control of the Minister, the Minister
after consultation with the Committee shall make that place or object
available to that body as and whenever required for purposes sanctioned by the
Aboriginal tradition relevant to that place or object.
[Section 8 amended: No. 24 of 1995 s. 9.]