Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L00148:reg:2017:p41
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L00148
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2017 (pt 41/81)
Character Range: 157551–160558

the northeast of the Library, Reconciliation Place, and the land between the Library and the lake.

    Australian Heritage Council

The Australian Heritage Council undertakes a number of functions regarding Australia's heritage as outlined in the previous section.  In relation to the Library, the key ongoing roles are commenting on management plans for the Library, and advising on any changes to the existing Commonwealth Heritage listing.

    Department of the Environment and Energy

The Department is responsible for managing the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act as outlined in Section 5.2 above, and for providing advice to its Minister who makes decisions under the Act.  As noted elsewhere, the Act is relevant to the National Library of Australia's management of the heritage values of its building.  Key roles relate to management plans for the Library as well as changes which might affect the heritage values of the place.

Department of Communications and the Arts

Although a statutory authority and established under its own Act of Parliament, the Library sits within the Arts portfolio, with other cultural agencies, of the Department of Communications and the Arts.  The Department maintains portfolio oversight of the activities of the Library.

    Moral Rights Holders

As outlined above, architects, landscape architects and artists responsible for the designed aspects of the National Library of Australia may hold moral rights under the Copyright Act 1968.  This conservation management plan attempts to acknowledge the moral rights holders related to the building and integrated artworks.

In the context of the plan, moral rights holders are stakeholders who can expect to be acknowledged as the architect, landscape architect or artist for their designed aspects of the building or integrated artworks, and to be given the opportunity to comment on proposed actions that might result in the derogatory treatment of the designed aspects for which they were responsible (right of integrity).  Other rights also apply.

In the case of the Library, moral rights are expected to arise in the case of the original building, the extensions completed in 1986, other designed changes, and artworks integral to the place (eg. stained glass windows, entry sculpture, tapestries and copper window panels).

Efforts by the Library to identify any moral rights holder for the original building have so far been unsuccessful.

    ACT Aboriginal Community

The Kamberri/Ngunnawal community are recognised as the traditional Aboriginal community associated with the Australian Capital Territory.[88]  The interests of the Kamberri/Ngunnawal community are represented by four groups formally recognised as being Indigenous stakeholders in the ACT, and the views of each group were sought as part of a consultation process related to the earlier version of the conservation management plan, which touched on a range of heritage and planning issues within the Parliamentary