7Movable cultural heritage of Australia

7 Movable cultural heritage of Australia

(1) A reference in section 8 to the movable cultural heritage of Australia is a reference to objects that are of importance to Australia, or to a particular part of Australia, for ethnological, archaeological, historical, literary, artistic, scientific or technological reasons, being objects falling within one or more of the following categories: (a) objects recovered from: (i) the soil or inland waters of Australia; (ii) the coastal sea of Australia or the waters above the continental shelf of Australia; or (iii) the seabed or subsoil beneath the sea or waters referred to in subparagraph (ii); (b) objects relating to members of the Aboriginal race of Australia and descendants of the indigenous inhabitants of the Torres Strait Islands; (c) objects of ethnographic art or ethnography; (d) military objects; (e) objects of decorative art; (f) objects of fine art; (g) objects of scientific or technological interest; (h) books, records, documents or photographs, graphic, film or television material or sound recordings; (j) any other prescribed categories. (2) The generality of paragraph (1)(j) is not limited by any of the other paragraphs of subsection (1).