5Replacement of Royal arms of the United Kingdom

5 Replacement of Royal arms of the United Kingdom

5 Replacement of Royal arms of the United Kingdom

(1) As soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act, any Royal arms of the United Kingdom used to represent the authority of the Crown in right of the State or the State in or on any public building, or public place that is the property of the Crown in right of the State or of the State and is intended to represent the authority of the Crown in right of the State or of the State, are to be removed and replaced by the State arms.

(2) As soon as practicable (but in any event within 3 years) after the commencement of this Act, any Royal Arms of the United Kingdom on any document, seal or other object (not being a fixture or otherwise part of a building) that is the property of the Crown in right of the State or of the State, and is intended to be used to represent the authority of the Crown in right of the State or of the State, are to be removed and replaced by the State arms.

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a building or place in respect of which the Premier, after consultation with the Heritage Council, determines that the Royal arms of the United Kingdom there displayed form an integral part of an item of the environmental heritage of the State.

(4) In any building or place to which subsection (1) does not apply because of subsection (3), the State arms must be used and displayed in a prominent position to represent the authority of the Crown in right of the State or the State, as the case may be, in addition to the Royal arms of the United Kingdom while they continue to be displayed there.

(5) Sculpted arms, or arms in any durable form, that are removed in accordance with this section are to be housed or otherwise dealt with in such manner as the Premier, after consultation with the Heritage Council, may direct. Such a direction is to be aimed at their being housed or otherwise dealt with in a manner that, whether they are to be held in public or private ownership, will ensure their appropriate conservation, interpretation and display as part of the constitutional, legal, cultural and artistic heritage of the State.

(6) Consultation with the Heritage Council is sufficient for the purposes of this section if the Premier has requested advice from the Council about the matter concerned and has taken into consideration any response received from the Council within 60 days of making the request.