Heritage Act 2017

The functions of the Heritage Council are—

to advise the Minister on the status of the State's cultural heritage resources and on any steps necessary to protect and conserve them; and

to make and publish guidelines in relation to the conservation of cultural heritage; and

to promote public understanding of the State's cultural heritage and develop and conduct community information and education programs; and

to advise government departments and agencies, municipal councils and other responsible authorities on matters relating to the protection and conservation of cultural heritage; and

to liaise with other bodies responsible for matters relating to the protection, conservation, management and promotion of cultural heritage; and

to initiate and undertake programs of research related to the identification, conservation or interpretation of cultural heritage; and

to include places or objects in the Heritage Register; and

to remove places or objects from the Heritage Register, or to amend the registration of a place or object; and

to remove sites from the Heritage Inventory; and

to conduct reviews of decisions of the Executive Director in relation to nominations, permits and consents; and

to develop, revise and publish the assessment criteria to be used in considering the cultural heritage significance of places and objects and determining whether those places or objects should or should not be included in the Heritage Register; and

to adopt, and forward to the Minister, World Heritage Strategy Plans and amendments to World Heritage Strategy Plans; and

to determine criteria for assessing whether a place has archaeological value; and

to advise the Minister administering the Planning and Environment Act 1987 on proposed amendments to planning schemes which may affect the protection or conservation of cultural heritage; and

to manage the Heritage Fund; and

to perform any other functions conferred on the Heritage Council under this Act or any other Act.

Subject to this Act, the Heritage Council has the power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for, in connection with or incidental to, the performance of its functions.