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HERITAGE ACT 2017 - SECT 77

Permits for exploration or recovery of registered shipwrecks, historic shipwrecks, registered shipwreck artefacts or historic shipwreck artefacts and in relation to protected zones

    (1)     A person may apply to the Executive Director for a permit authorising that person, and any other person named or described in the permit, to do an act or thing which would otherwise be prohibited under section 73, 74, 75 or 76 or the underwater cultural heritage regulations.

    (2)     An application must be made in the prescribed form and be accompanied by the prescribed fee (if any).

    (3)     The Executive Director may grant the permit subject to any conditions the Executive Director considers fit.

    (4)     The Executive Director may at any time, by notice in writing to the person to whom a permit has been granted—

        (a)     revoke the permit; or

        (b)     vary any conditions of the permit; or

        (c)     suspend the permit; or

        (d)     cancel a suspension of the permit.

    (5)     A suspension of a permit may be of indefinite duration or for a specified period.

    (6)     A person must not contravene a condition imposed in respect of a permit that has been granted to the person or is otherwise applicable to the person.

Penalty:     In the case of a natural person, 240 penalty units or imprisonment
for 2 years or both;

    In the case of a body corporate, 480 penalty units.



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