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National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974
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#### 30F Historic sites
30F Historic sites
> > (1) The purpose of reserving land as a historic site is to identify, protect and conserve areas associated with a person, event or historical theme, or containing a building, place, feature or landscape of cultural significance so as to enable those areas to be managed in accordance with subsection (2).
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> > (2) A historic site is to be managed in accordance with the following principles—
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> > > (a) the conservation of places, objects, features and landscapes of cultural value,
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> > > (b) the conservation of natural values,
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> > > (c) provision for sustainable visitor or tourist use and enjoyment that is compatible with the conservation of the historic site’s natural and cultural values,
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> > > (d) provision for the sustainable use (including adaptive reuse) of any buildings or structures or modified natural areas having regard to the conservation of the historic site’s natural and cultural values,
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> > > (da) provision for the carrying out of development in any part of a special area (within the meaning of the [Hunter Water Act 1991](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1991-053)) in the historic site that is permitted under section 185A having regard to the conservation of the historic site’s natural and cultural values,
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> > > (e) the promotion of public appreciation and understanding of the historic site’s natural and cultural values,
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> > > (f) provision for appropriate research and monitoring.
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> **s 30F:** Ins 2001 No 130, Sch 1 \[26\]. Am 2006 No 90, Sch 8 \[2\]; 2010 No 41, Sch 1 \[4\].