Heritage Places Regulations 2020

These regulations may be cited as the

Heritage Places

Regulations 2020.

In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

Act means the Heritage Places Act 1993;

business day means any day except—

Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday; or

any other day which falls between 25 December in any year and 1 January in the following year.

For the purposes of section 27(2)(b) of the

Act—

the prescribed period for notifying the Council of the location of an object is 5 business days from the date of discovery;

and

the prescribed period for furnishing information to the Council is

10 business days from the date on which the Council requested the provision of the relevant information, or such longer period as the Council may allow.

For the purposes of section 38A(5)(a)(i) of the Act, the form set out in Schedule 1 is prescribed.

For the purposes of sections 39A(5a)(a), 39B(12)(a) and 39C(8)(a) of the Act, the prescribed rate of interest per annum on an unpaid amount will be the prime bank rate for any financial year for which the amount remains unpaid.

In this regulation—

prime bank rate for a particular financial year means the corporate loan reference rate applied by the Commonwealth Bank of

Australia for corporate lending on the first trading day of the Bank in that financial year.

The Council may waive or reduce a prescribed fee if satisfied that it is appropriate to do so in a particular case.