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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 09 Hansard (Tuesday, 17 August 2004) . . Page.. 3762 ..

most part address the issues relating to indigenous heritage. I welcome the amendment but I think that it is a bit late.

MR WOOD (Minister for Disability, Housing and Community Services, Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Minister for Arts and Heritage, and Acting Minister for Health) (6.23): You have just made the point. This amendment is underlining what was in the bill, putting an asterisk against it and saying that we agree with it. It is added emphasis, but it does not add something to the bill that really was not there before.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 10, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 11 and 12, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 13.

MR WOOD (Minister for Disability, Housing and Community Services, Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Minister for Arts and Heritage, and Acting Minister for Health) (6.24): I seek leave to move together amendments 6 to 8 circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MR WOOD: I move amendments Nos 6 to 8 circulated in my name [see schedule 3 at page 3803].

These paragraphs ensure that a person who nominated a place for registration will be included in the consultation during that process.

MS TUCKER (6.25): Amendment No 6 ensures that a person who nominated a place for heritage registration is considered an interested person in regard to that place and will so remain informed as to its status, such as whether it is registered or whether it is deregistered. Such an inclusion is at the very least a courtesy and, on occasion, may make a real difference to the status of the heritage place. Amendment No 8 refers to an Aboriginal place or object and ensures that anyone who reports such a place or object is accorded interested person status. Again, that is because such reports might not automatically be nominated by the Heritage Council or referred to an Aboriginal organisation for advice and it seems reasonable that anyone making such a report ought to be kept in the loop so that they can become proactive themselves should that seem appropriate.

Amendments agreed to.

Clause 13, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 14.

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