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Heritage Act 1977
118Minimum standards of maintenance and repair
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#### 118 Minimum standards of maintenance and repair
118 Minimum standards of maintenance and repair
> > (1) The regulations may impose minimum standards with respect to the maintenance and repair of a building or work (other than a ruin) or a relic that is listed or within a precinct that is listed on the State Heritage Register, but those standards can only relate to the following matters—
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> > > (a) the protection of the building, work or relic from damage or deterioration due to weather (including such matters as the weatherproofing of roof, doors and windows),
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> > > (b) the prevention of and the protection of the building, work or relic from damage or destruction by fire,
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> > > (c) security (including fencing and surveillance measures to prevent vandalism),
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> > > (d) essential maintenance and repair (being maintenance and repair necessary to prevent serious or irreparable damage or deterioration).
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> > (2) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to minimum standards that may be listed on the State Heritage Register for the maintenance of a ruin or a moveable object that is listed on that Register, but those standards can only relate to the following matters—
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> > > (a) the protection of the ruin or moveable object from damage or destruction by fire,
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> > > (b) security (including fencing and surveillance measures to prevent vandalism),
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> > > (c) essential maintenance of a moveable object (being maintenance necessary to prevent serious or irreparable damage or deterioration).
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> > (3) Without limiting subsection (2), the regulations referred to in that subsection may make provision for or with respect to—
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> > > (a) the means by which the minimum standards may be listed, amended or revoked, and
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> > > (b) the enforcement of the minimum standards (including by extending the operation of sections 119, 120 and 121 and associated provisions, with any necessary modification, to the minimum standards).
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> > (4) In this section—
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> > ruin means a building or work that is listed, and identified as a ruin, on the State Heritage Register.
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> **s 118:** Subst 1998 No 138, Sch 1 \[33\]. Am 2010 No 119, Sch 1.16 \[1\] \[2\].