Victorian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ABORIGINAL RELICS PRESERVATION ACT 1972

Act No. 8273/1972
Version incorporating amendments as at 5 April 2005

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Section Page
   1.      Short title and commencement
   2.      Definitions
   3.      Repealed
   4.      Delegation of powers
   5.      Archaeological Relics Advisory Committee
   6.      Meetings
   7.      Functions of Advisory Committee
   8.      Secretary
   9.      Appointment of honorary inspectors, wardens etc.
   10.     Duties of the Secretary
   11.     Identity card
   12.     Powers of inspectors and wardens
   13.     Penalties
   14.     Inspector or warden may demand name and address of suspect
   15.     Archaeological areas
   16.     Temporary archaeological areas
   17.     Persons not to be within an archaeological area without permission
   18.     Compulsory acquisition
   19.     Erection of notices
   20.     Relics deemed property of Crown
   20A.    Museum of Victoria to be place of lodgment
   21.     Damaging relics
   22.     Land not to be excavated without permit
   23.     Discovery of relics to be reported
   24.     When land may cease to be an archaeological area
   25.     Powers of Minister in preserving relics
   26.     Minister may take actions to preserve relics
   26A.    Offence to buy, sell or possess relics (other than portable
           relics) without consent
   26B.    Offence to possess or display Aboriginal skeletal remains
   27.     Purchase and sale of portable relics
   27A.    Not an offence to pick up portable relics
   27B.    Safeguarding of portable relics
   28.     General penalty
   29.     Evidentiary
   30.     Forfeiture of relics
   31.     Seizure of relics
   32.     Regulations
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details