Recommendations for reform of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 Publication

• Introduction

  Recommendations for reform of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 (Vic)

• Background

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• Summary

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• Theme One: Furthering Self-Determination for Registered Aboriginal Parties

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• Recommendation One: Expansion of the Legislative Functions of a RAP

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• Recommendation Two: Enabling Council to approve RAP applications with conditions

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• Recommendation Three: Native title definitions and RAP applications

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• Recommendation Four

  RAP Cultural Heritage Consent in relation to CHMPs

• Theme Two

  Increasing the Autonomy of the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council

• Recommendation Five: Appointment of Members through existing representative Victorian Traditional Owner institutions

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• Recommendation Six: Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council name change

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• Recommendation Seven

  Transferring responsibility of the Register from FPSR to Council

• Recommendation Eight

  Transfer of various other Secretarial Functions to the Council

• Recommendation Nine: Amending the procedures for dispute resolution under the Act

  Amending the procedures for dispute resolution under the Act

• Recommendation Ten: Amending the prosecution powers

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• Recommendation Eleven: Extension of Chairperson Terms

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• Recommendation Twelve

  Council’s Financial Operation

• Recommendation Thirteen: Empowering Council to employ its own Staff

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• Theme Three: Recognising, Protecting and Conserving Aboriginal Cultural Heritage

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• Recommendation Fourteen: Regulation of Heritage Advisors

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• Recommendation Fifteen: Compulsory Consultation of RAPs During the CHMP Process

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• Recommendation Sixteen: Elective power for RAPs to engage as Heritage Advisors in the preparation of CHMPS

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• Recommendation Seventeen: Amending the Power of Entry for Authorised Officers and Aboriginal Heritage Officers

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• Recommendation Eighteen: Amending evidentiary provisions regarding Aboriginal Objects

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• Recommendation Nineteen

  Clarifying ownership with regards to Secret and Sacred Objects.

• Recommendation Twenty: Secret and Sacred Objects – Search and Seizure Powers

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• Recommendation Twenty-One: Granting of permits pertaining to the management of Ancestral Remains

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• Recommendation Twenty-Two: Introducing civil damages provisions

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• Recommendation Twenty-Three: RAP consultation in the due diligence assessment/PAHT process

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• Recommendation Twenty-Four: Prohibition on use of land of up to 10 years

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• Appendices

  Glossary, Proposed Suite of Reforms and United Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Updated 29 November 2021