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MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY ACT 1973 - SECT 24

24 .         Register of discoverers of ancient shipwrecks

        (1)         In order to give statutory recognition to the primary and secondary discoverers of ancient shipwrecks there shall be a register of discoverers of ancient shipwrecks constituted by Schedule 3.

        (2)         In this section —

        ancient shipwreck means any of the ships wrecked off the coast of Western Australia and known as the Tryal , the Batavia , the Vergulde Draeck , the Zuytdorp , or the Zeewyk ; and

        primary discoverer and secondary discoverer have the meanings given to those terms by the Select Committee on Ancient Shipwrecks Report tabled in the Legislative Assembly on 17 August 1994.

        (3)         The Third Schedule has effect.

        [Section 24 inserted by No. 44 of 1997 s. 4.]

[s. 6]

        [Heading amended by No. 19 of 2010 s. 4.]



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