Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

HERITAGE ACT 2004 - SECT 10

A place or object has heritage significance if the place or object meets 1 or more of the following criteria (the heritage significance criteria ):

        (a)     importance to the course or pattern of the ACT's cultural or natural history;

        (b)     has uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the ACT's cultural or natural history;

        (c)     potential to yield important information that will contribute to an understanding of the ACT's cultural or natural history;

        (d)     importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places or objects;

        (e)     importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics valued by the ACT community or a cultural group in the ACT;

        (f)     importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement for a particular period;

        (g)     has a strong or special association with the ACT community, or a cultural group in the ACT for social, cultural or spiritual reasons;

Example

a place or object that has a strong or special association for Aboriginal people in the ACT because it is part of their continuing or developing cultural tradition

        (h)     has a special association with the life or work of a person, or people, important to the history of the ACT.