Underwater Cultural Heritage Rules 2018 (Cth)

Underwater Cultural Heritage Rules 2018 I, Melissa Price, Minister for the Environment, make the following rules.

Dated 18 December 2018

Melissa Price Minister for the Environment

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions Part 2—Criteria relating to heritage significance 5 Criteria relating to heritage significance Part 3—Permits 6 Matters to which the Minister must have regard when considering applications 7 Matters that must be specified in permits 8 Varying permits

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name This instrument is the Underwater Cultural Heritage Rules 2018.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument The later of: 1 July 2019 (a) the start of the day after this instrument is registered; and (paragraph (b) applies) (b) the commencement of the Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority This instrument is made under the Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018.