Western Australian Current Acts

MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY ACT 1973

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title
            
   2.      Commencement
            
   3.      Terms used
            
   4.      Maritime archaeological sites
            
   5.      Act does not apply to specified sites or objects
            
   6.      Vesting of ships and sites
            
   7.      Compensation and prior vesting
            
   8.      Offences
            
   9.      Protected zones
            
   10.     Evidence
            
   11.     Seizure
            
   12.     Forfeiture
            
   13.     Court may order payment of value
            
   14.     Reward for information as to offences
            
   15.     Proceedings by Trustees relating to property
            
   16.     Limitation period for prosecutions
            
   17.     New finds
            
   18.     Rewards as to ships and relics found
            
   19.     Offences as to alleged finds
            
   20.     Trustees’ powers
            
   21.     Power of disposal
            
   22.     Certain property to be made available to Trustees
            
   23.     Regulations
            
   24.      Register of discoverers of ancient shipwrecks
           FIRST SCHEDULE
           SECOND SCHEDULE
           THIRD SCHEDULE
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