Victorian Current Acts

ABORIGINAL HERITAGE ACT 2006 - SECT 21

    (1)     This section applies to an Aboriginal object that—

        (a)     is a secret or sacred object; and

S. 21(1)(b) amended by No. 11/2016 s. 19(2).

        (b)     is, immediately before the commencement of this section, in the custody of a State entity, or, on or after that commencement but before the commencement of section 20 of the Aboriginal Heritage Amendment Act 2016 , comes into the custody of a State entity.

    (2)     Aboriginal people who have a traditional or familial link with the object, if they are not already the owners of the object, become the owners—

        (a)     if the object was in the custody of a State entity immediately before the commencement of this section, on that commencement; or

        (b)     in any other case, when the object comes into the custody of a State entity.

S. 21A inserted by No. 11/2016 s. 20.