Heritage Places (Great Australian Bight) Amendment Bill 2025 (SA)

South Australia Heritage Places (Great Australian Bight) Amendment Bill 2025 A Bill For An Act to amend the Heritage Places Act 1993 and to make a related amendment to the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016.

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Short title 2 Commencement Part 2—Amendment of Heritage Places Act 1993 3 Amendment of section 3—Interpretation 4 Amendment of section 14—Content of Register 5 Amendment of section 24—Alteration of Register if place to be designated as place of local heritage value 6 Insertion of Part 4A Part 4A—Great Australian Bight State Heritage Area 24A Great Australian Bight State Heritage Area Schedule 1—Related amendment and transitional provision Part 1——Related amendment to Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 1 Amendment of section 66—Key provisions about content of code Part 2—Transitional provision 2 Transitional provision

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: Part 1—Preliminary 1—Short title This Act may be cited as the Heritage Places (Great Australian Bight) Amendment Act 2025. 2—Commencement This Act comes into operation on the day on which it is assented to by, or on behalf of, the Crown.

Part 2—Amendment of Heritage Places Act 1993 3—Amendment of section 3—Interpretation (1) Section 3(1)—after the definition of associate insert: coastal waters of the State has the same meaning as in the Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act 1980 of the Commonwealth, and includes the sea‑bed and subsoil beneath, and the airspace above, those waters; (2) Section 3(1)—after the definition of Fund insert: Great Australian Bight means the coastal waters of the State to the extent those waters comprise part of the Great Australian Bight; Great Australian Bight State Heritage Area means the Great Australian Bight State Heritage Area established under Part 4A; (3) Section 3(1), definition of State Heritage Area—after "means" insert: the Great Australian Bight State Heritage Area or 4—Amendment of section 14—Content of Register (1) Section 14(4)(a)—after "or (b)" insert: or relating to the Great Australian Bight State Heritage Area (2) Section 14(4)(b)—after "or (e)" insert: (other than in relation to the Great Australian Bight State Heritage Area) 5—Amendment of section 24—Alteration of Register if place to be designated as place of local heritage value Section 24—after subsection (4) insert: (5) This section does not apply in relation to the Great Australian Bight State Heritage Area. 6—Insertion of Part 4A After Part 4 insert: Part 4A—Great Australian Bight State Heritage Area 24A—Great Australian Bight State Heritage Area The Great Australian Bight is established as a State Heritage Area.