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ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HERITAGE PROTECTION REGULATIONS 1991 NO. 231

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Statutory Rules 1991 No. 231

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HERITAGE PROTECTION REGULATIONS

Issued by the Authority of the Minister of State for Aboriginal Affairs.

These Regulations are made under Section 32 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 which provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purpose of the Act.

On request of the Government of Victoria, the Parliament of the Commonwealth enacted the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Amendment Act 1987 to make certain provision for the preservation of the Aboriginal cultural heritage in Victoria, and for related purposes which inserted a new Part in the Act - "Victorian Aboriginal Cultural Heritage".

The latter Act defined "community area" in relation to a Victorian local Aboriginal community, as the area declared by the Regulations to be the area of that community for the purposes of the new Part.

Schedule 4 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Regulations provide for description of the boundaries of a number of community areas which are prescribed in the Regulations.

The proposed Regulations insert desriptions of new Areas 21 and 22 in the north-east of Victoria, and also substitute new descriptions of exisiting Areas 1, 2, 5 and 15, which have been developed since the original descriptions were prepared in 1989. Finally the proposed Regulations correct a number of errors in the description of boundaries, the spelling of place names etc, in relation to other existing Areas.


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