Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00629:section:7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00629
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 7
Character Range: 8957–10184

7  Movable cultural heritage of Australia
 (1) A reference in section 8 to the movable cultural heritage of Australia is a reference to objects that are of importance to Australia, or to a particular part of Australia, for ethnological, archaeological, historical, literary, artistic, scientific or technological reasons, being objects falling within one or more of the following categories:
 (a) objects recovered from:
 (i) the soil or inland waters of Australia;
 (ii) the coastal sea of Australia or the waters above the continental shelf of Australia; or
 (iii) the seabed or subsoil beneath the sea or waters referred to in subparagraph (ii);
 (b) objects relating to members of the Aboriginal race of Australia and descendants of the indigenous inhabitants of the Torres Strait Islands;
 (c) objects of ethnographic art or ethnography;
 (d) military objects;
 (e) objects of decorative art;
 (f) objects of fine art;
 (g) objects of scientific or technological interest;
 (h) books, records, documents or photographs, graphic, film or television material or sound recordings;
 (j) any other prescribed categories.
 (2) The generality of paragraph (1)(j) is not limited by any of the other paragraphs of subsection (1).