Aboriginal Heritage Act 1975.

The Aboriginal Heritage Act 1975 provides for the establishment of the Aboriginal Heritage Council, its functions and powers. Part III concerns declaration, management, and protection of protected sites; where the Minister is satisfied that there is on or in any land a relic and that steps should be taken to protect or preserve that relic, he may, on the recommendation of the Director, by order declare an area of land within which it is situated to be a protected site. The Director is charged with the management and maintenance of every protected site and the protection and preservation of the protected objects on and in that site. Further provisions include duties of persons owning or finding relics and acquisition of relics by the Crown.