Victorian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

Archaeological and Aboriginal Relics Preservation Act 1972 - SECT 2

Definitions

2. Definitions

In this Act unless inconsistent with the context or subject-matter-



"Aborigine" means inhabitant of Australia in pre-historic ages or a descendant
from any such person;



"Advisory Committee" means the Archaeological Relics Advisory Committee
constituted under this Act;



"archaeological area" means an area proclaimed under this Act as an
archaeological area;



"archaeological relic" or "relic" means a relic pertaining to the past
occupation by the Aboriginal people of any part of Australia, whether or not
the relic existed prior to the occupation of that part of Australia by people
of European descent, and without affecting the generality of the foregoing,
includes any Aboriginal deposit, carving, drawing, skeletal remains and
anything belonging to the total body of material relating to that past
Aboriginal occupation of Australia, but does not include a body or the remains
of a body interred in a cemetery, burial ground or place of burial after the
year 1834, or a handiwork made for the purpose of sale;



"Crown land" means land belonging for the time being to the Crown;

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"inspector" means inspector under this Act;



"portable relic" means a relic which because of its weight and size is capable
of being lifted and removed by hand;



"prescribed" means prescribed by this Act or the regulations;



"private land" means-

   (a)  land alienated from the Crown in fee simple or vested in an authority
        (other than a statutory corporation) for the purposes of an Act; or

   (b)  land leased or granted under a licence under an Act relating to
        Crown lands with a right of acquiring the fee simple in that land or
        held under perpetual lease under the Land Act 1958;



"regulations" means regulations under this Act;



"sale" includes barter, exchange, agreement for sale barter or exchange, offer
for sale barter or exchange and the receipt possession signing consignment or
delivery for or on sale barter or exchange and the verb "to sell" (however
conjugated) has a corresponding meaning;



"Secretary" means the Secretary for Planning and Environment and includes any
person for the time being acting as Secretary for Planning and Environment;

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"this Act" includes the regulations;



"warden" means warden under this Act.

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