Act does not apply to specified sites or objects
5 Act does not apply to specified sites or objects
Where the Director is of the opinion that any site is not of national or local historical interest or of scientific, archaeological, educational or other special national or local interest, he shall advise the Trustees accordingly and the Trustees may recommend to the Minister that the provisions of this Act should no longer apply to that site.
If the Minister approves of a recommendation made under subsection (1), he may, by notice in the Gazette, declare that this Act no longer applies to that site.
Where the Minister declares that this Act no longer applies to any maritime archaeological site the provisions of this Act shall no longer apply to any object taken, derived or recovered from, or associated with that site or the ship the remains of which were comprised in that site.
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