Historic Cultural Heritage Act 1995
17Provisional entry in Register
Start here
Get a plain-English read of 17
Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Historic Cultural Heritage Act 1995.
17 Provisional entry in Register
(1) [Section 17 Subsection (1) amended by No. 70 of 2013, s. 12, Applied:01 Mar 2014] The Heritage Council, on its own initiative or on application to it by any person, may decide to enter a place in the Heritage Register on a provisional basis if in its opinion it meets any one or more of the registration criteria.
(2) A person who applies to have a place entered in the Heritage Register on a provisional basis must give any information the Heritage Council requires to enable it to deal with the application.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 20 penalty units.
(3) The Heritage Council must not exclude a place from being entered in the Heritage Register on a provisional basis only on the ground that another place with similar characteristics is already entered in the Heritage Register.