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HERITAGE ACT 1977 - SECT 118
Minimum standards of maintenance and repair
118 Minimum standards of maintenance and repair
(1) The regulations may impose minimum standards with respect to the
maintenance and repair of a building or work (other than a ruin) or a relic
that is listed or within a precinct that is listed on the
State Heritage Register, but those standards can only relate to the following
matters-- (a) the protection of the building, work or relic from damage or
deterioration due to weather (including such matters as the weatherproofing of
roof, doors and windows),
(b) the prevention of and the protection of the
building, work or relic from damage or destruction by fire,
(c) security
(including fencing and surveillance measures to prevent vandalism),
(d)
essential maintenance and repair (being maintenance and repair necessary to
prevent serious or irreparable damage or deterioration).
(2) The regulations
may make provision for or with respect to minimum standards that may be listed
on the State Heritage Register for the maintenance of a ruin or a
moveable object that is listed on that Register, but those standards can only
relate to the following matters-- (a) the protection of the ruin or
moveable object from damage or destruction by fire,
(b) security (including
fencing and surveillance measures to prevent vandalism),
(c) essential
maintenance of a moveable object (being maintenance necessary to prevent
serious or irreparable damage or deterioration).
(3) Without limiting
subsection (2), the regulations referred to in that subsection may make
provision for or with respect to-- (a) the means by which the minimum
standards may be listed, amended or revoked, and
(b) the enforcement of the
minimum standards (including by extending the operation of sections 119, 120
and 121 and associated provisions, with any necessary modification, to the
minimum standards).
(4) In this section--
"ruin" means a building or work that is listed, and identified as a ruin, on
the State Heritage Register.
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