254FException to compliance with on request inspection requirements when emergency declaration in force

254F Exception to compliance with on request inspection requirements when emergency declaration in force (1) The Heritage Council or the Executive Director is not required to make a document, the Heritage Register or the Heritage Inventory available on request in accordance with the requirements set out in section 254B or 254D if, at the time a request to inspect a document, the Register or the Inventory is made— (a) there is an emergency declaration in force; and (b) it is not reasonably practicable for the Heritage Council or Executive Director to do so because of a fact or circumstance arising out of the emergency or serious risk to public health in respect of which the declaration has been made. (2) In this section— ***emergency declaration*** means— (a) a declaration of a state of disaster under section 23 of the **Emergency Management Act 1986**; or (b) a pandemic declaration under section 165AB of the **Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008**; or (c) a declaration of a state of emergency under section 198 of the **Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008**.