10ARequirement to check for Aboriginal sites

10A Requirement to check for Aboriginal sites

10A Requirement to check for Aboriginal sites

(1) The owner and manager of an authorised plantation must ensure that, before any plantation operations involving soil disturbance are carried out on the plantation, a search of the Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System is undertaken in respect of possible Aboriginal objects located on the proposed site or sites of soil disturbance.

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(2) Subclause (1) does not require such a search unless the soil disturbance activities are to be carried out more than 12 months after the authorisation of the plantation or more than 12 months after a previous search of the Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System in respect of the same site or sites.

(3) In this clause, Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System means the database established under section 90Q of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974.