Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2025
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Schedule 5A—Management plans for National Heritage places
(regulation 10.01C)
A management plan must:
(a) establish objectives for the identification, protection, conservation, presentation and transmission of the National Heritage values of the place; and
(b) provide a management framework that includes reference to any statutory requirements and agency mechanisms for the protection of the National Heritage values of the place; and
(c) provide a comprehensive description of the place, including information about its location, physical features, condition, historical context and current uses; and
(d) provide a description of the National Heritage values and any other heritage values of the place; and
(e) describe the condition of the National Heritage values of the place; and
(f) describe the method used to assess the National Heritage values of the place; and
(g) describe the current management requirements and goals, including proposals for change and any potential pressures on the National Heritage values of the place; and
(h) have policies to manage the National Heritage values of a place, and include, in those policies, guidance in relation to the following:
(i) the management and conservation processes to be used;
(ii) the access and security arrangements, including access to the area for indigenous people to maintain cultural traditions;
(iii) the stakeholder and community consultation and liaison arrangements;
(iv) the policies and protocols to ensure that indigenous people participate in the management process;
(v) the protocols for the management of sensitive information;
(vi) the planning and management of works, development, adaptive reuse and property divestment proposals;
(vii) how unforeseen discoveries or disturbance of heritage are to be managed;
(viii) how, and under what circumstances, heritage advice is to be obtained;
(ix) how the condition of National Heritage values is to be monitored and reported;
(x) how records of intervention and maintenance of a heritage places register are kept;
(xi) the research, training and resources needed to improve management;
(xii) how heritage values are to be interpreted and promoted; and
(i) include an implementation plan; and
(j) show how the implementation of policies will be monitored; and
(k) show how the management plan will be reviewed.