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– Commonwealth Heritage management principles) of the EPBC Act 1999, as amended.

     2.4                Methodology
     This report was prepared to, in part, satisfy the obligations of the Reserve Bank of Australia under Section 341S of the EPBC Act 1999, as amended.  The methodology and format of this report are generally consistent with that set out in the following documents:

                  The Conservation Plan by Dr James Semple Kerr (7th Edition, 2013) published by the National Trust of Australia (NSW).
                  Australia ICOMOS Charter for the Conservation of Places of Cultural Significance (The Burra Charter) 2013.
                  Management Plans for Places on the Commonwealth Heritage List: a guide for agencies. Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage, November 2006.
                  Working Together: Managing Commonwealth Heritage Places.  Commonwealth of Australia 2019.

Sections of this report have been taken verbatim from the following report prepared for the Reserve Bank of Australia:

                  NBRS+Partners. Heritage Management Plan: The Reserve Bank of Australia 65 Martin Place Sydney NSW 2000.  26 October 2012 Unpublished report prepared for the Reserve Bank of Australia.

2.5                Terminology
The terms 'Reserve Bank of Australia Head Office building', 'Reserve Bank building', 'RBA building' and 'Head Office building', and the place, are used interchangeably throughout this report to describe the building located at 65 Martin Place, Sydney NSW 2000.

The terms fabric, place, preservation, reconstruction, restoration, adaptation and conservation used throughout this report have the meaning given to them in Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance (Burra Charter) 2013.  The methodology used in the preparation of this report generally follows that recommended as best-practice by Australia ICOMOS (see Figure 3).

Figure 3 - Diagram showing the sequence of steps in planning and managing a place of cultural significance, contained in The Burra Charter, and underpinning this Conservation Management Plan methodology.
Source: The Burra Charter, 2013, https://australia.icomos.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Burra-Charter-2013-Adopted-31.10.2013.pdf

     2.6                Limitations
The RBA Head Office building was inspected on various dates in 2018 and 2019 to confirm the location and condition of building fabric.  Inspections were carried out while the building was occupied and operational.  Inspections were limited to visual observations, carried out from ground level or internal floor level.  Inspections were general in nature, having been carried out without physical intervention or removal of building fabric.

No European or Aboriginal archaeological assessment was undertaken as part of this report.  The site of the Head Office has been assessed as an 'Area of no archaeological potential' under the Archaeological Zoning Plan for Central Sydney-1992, prepared by Siobhan Lavelle and Dana Mider for the Sydney City Council.

Artworks, apart from fixed wall murals and sculptures, and numismatics collections are not addressed specifically in this Heritage Management Plan.

     2.7                Authorship
     The following members of NBRSARCHITECTURE