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Appendix B: National and Commonwealth Heritage List criteria
National Heritage List criteria
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-left:16.1pt; border:0.75pt solid #000000; border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:15.45pt"><td colspan="2" style="width:480.65pt; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top; background-color:#dddddd"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">Division 2 10.01A National Heritage criteria (Act S 324D)</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:26.95pt"><td colspan="2" style="width:480.65pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top; background-color:#f8f8f8"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:1.9pt; line-height:101%; font-size:10pt"><span>(1) For section 324D of the EPBC Act, subregulation (2) prescribes the National Heritage criteria for the following:</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.45pt"><td style="width:33.55pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span>(a)</span></p></td><td style="width:446.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span>natural heritage values of places</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.55pt"><td style="width:33.55pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:2.1pt; font-size:10pt"><span>(b)</span></p></td><td style="width:446.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:2.1pt; font-size:10pt"><span>Indigenous heritage values of places</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.45pt"><td style="width:33.55pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span>(c)</span></p></td><td style="width:446.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span>historic heritage values of places.</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.45pt"><td colspan="2" style="width:480.65pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top; background-color:#f8f8f8"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span>(2) The National Heritage criteria for a place are any or all of the following:</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:27.05pt"><td style="width:33.55pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:2.1pt; font-size:10pt"><span>(a)</span></p></td><td style="width:446.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span>the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place’s importance in the course, or pattern, of Australia’s natural or cultural history</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:26.95pt"><td style="width:33.55pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span>(b)</span></p></td><td style="width:446.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:1.9pt; font-size:10pt"><span>the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place’s possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Australia’s natural or cultural history</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:26.95pt"><td style="width:33.55pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span>(c)</span></p></td><td style="width:446.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:1.9pt; font-size:10pt"><span>the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place’s potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Australia’s natural or cultural history</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:53.95pt"><td style="width:33.55pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span>(d)</span></p></td><td style="width:446.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:1.9pt; line-height:101%; font-size:10pt"><span>the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place’s importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of either of the following:</span></p><ol class="awlist133" style="margin:0pt; padding-left:0pt"><li class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:1.85pt; margin-left:17.15pt; text-indent:-11.7pt; font-size:10pt; letter-spacing:-0.1pt"><span style="width:2.82pt; font:7pt 'Times New Roman'; display:inline-block"></span><span style="letter-spacing:normal">a class of Australia’s natural or cultural</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:normal">places</span></li><li class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:1.9pt; margin-left:19.3pt; text-indent:-13.85pt; font-size:10pt; letter-spacing:-0.1pt"><span style="width:2.75pt; font:7pt 'Times New Roman'; display:inline-block"></span><span style="letter-spacing:normal">a class of Australia’s natural or cultural</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.3pt"> </span><span style="letter-spacing:normal">environments.</span></li></ol></td></tr><tr style="height:26.95pt"><td style="width:33.55pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span>(e)</span></p></td><td style="width:446.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:1.9pt; line-height:101%; font-size:10pt"><span>the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place’s importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics valued by a community or cultural group</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:26.95pt"><td style="width:33.55pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span>(f)</span></p></td><td style="width:446.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:1.9pt; line-height:101%; font-size:10pt"><span>the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place’s importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:26.95pt"><td style="width:33.55pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="font-size:10pt"><span>(g)</span></p></td><td style="width:446.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:1.9pt; line-height:101%; font-size:10pt"><span>the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place’s strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:38.5pt"><td style="width:33.55pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:2.1pt; font-size:10pt"><span>(h)</span></p></td><td style="width:446.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-right:8.45pt; font-size:10pt"><span>the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place’s special association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons, of importance in Australia’s natural or cultural history</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:27.05pt"><td style="width:33.55pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:2.1pt; font-size:10pt"><span>(i)</span></p></td><td style="width:446.35pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-right:8.45pt; font-size:10pt"><span>the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place’s importance as part of Indigenous tradition.</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:26.95pt"><td colspan="2" style="width:480.65pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; vertical-align:top; background-color:#f8f8f8"><p class="TableParagraph" style="margin-top:1.9pt; margin-right:38.9pt; font-size:10pt"><span>(3) For subregulation (2), the cultural aspect of a criterion means the Indigenous cultural aspect, the non-Indigenous cultural aspect, or both.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>