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World Heritage Properties Conservation Regulations.

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Type of law
Regulation
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Abstract
These Regulations specify areas that are declared to be part of the natural heritage. Properties specified in regulation 3 are declared to form part of the cultural heritage. Regulations 3A to 3E prescribe acts for purposes of subsection 9[1] of the World Heritage Properties Conservation Act 1983. Activities include the cutting of trees, the taking of plants, and the construction of dams. For the purposes of subsection 9(1) of the Act, each of the following acts is prescribed in relation to the relevant property (described in Schedule 2B):(a) for the purposes of, or in the course of carrying out, forestry operations: (i) killing, cutting down or damaging a tree in, or removing a tree or part of a tree from, the property; (ii) constructing or establishing a road or vehicular track within the property; or (iii) carrying out any excavation works within the property;(b) permitting, authorizing, directing or ordering, or purporting to permit, authorize, direct or order, the doing of an act of a kind referred to in paragraph (a).
The regulations are completed by 6 Schedules: Natural heritage (1); Cultural heritage (2); Natural heritage-wet tropics of Queensland (2b); Lot 640, Parish of Rockingham, wet tropics of Queensland (2c); Hinchinbrook Channel - description of protected area (2d); Areas containing cultural heritage property to which section 9 and 10 apply.
Notes
Consolidated version of S.R. No. 65 of 1983 as at 28 August 2007 and amended last by S.R. SR 1994 No. 388.
Repealed
No
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No