Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection (Kings Plains) Declaration 2024 (Cth)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection (Kings Plains) Declaration 2024

I, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, make the following declaration.

Dated 13 August 2024

TANYA PLIBERSEK Minister for the Environment and Water

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions Part 2—Declaration of an area as a significant Aboriginal area to be preserved and protected from injury or desecration 5 Declared area 6 Protection and preservation of declared area Schedule 1—Map of declared area—Kings Plains, New South Wales

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name This instrument is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection (Kings Plains) Declaration 2024.

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 day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 10 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984.

4 Definitions In this instrument: Act means the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984. bulk earthworks means the excavation or other movement of large quantities of soil or rock with the intent or effect of changing the level or elevation of an area of land. declared area means the area specified in section 5. land includes soil and vegetation. mining activities means activities that include, or are related to, the extraction of materials or minerals from the ground. Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 3 of the Act, including the following: (a) area; (b) significant Aboriginal area.