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ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HERITAGE PROTECTION REGULATIONS 1992NO. 121

Statutory Rules 1992 No. 121

Issued by the Authority of the Minister of State for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Regulations

These Regulations are made under Section 32 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 which provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purpose of the Act.

On request of the Government of Victoria, the Parliament of the commonwealth enacted the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Amendment Act 1987 to make certain provision for the preservation of the Aboriginal cultural heritage in Victoria, and for related purposes which inserted a new Part in the Act - "Victorian Aboriginal Cultural Heritage".

The latter Act defined "community area" in relation to a Victorian local Aboriginal community, as the area declared by the Regulations to be the area of that community for the purposes of the new Part.

Schedule 4 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Regulations provide for description of the boundaries of a number of community areas which are prescribed in the Regulations.

The proposed Regulations insert descriptions of new Areas 2A and 6A in the central-west of Victoria, and also substitute new descriptions of existing Areas 8, 9, 10, 18 and 20, which have been developed since the original descriptions were prepared in 1989. The proposed Regulations also recognise that the community area boundaries as described by the Regulation, do not necessarily correspond with, or represent the traditional tribal boundaries of the Aboriginal people in those communities.