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1998-99
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Protection of
Movable Cultural Heritage Amendment Bill
1999
No. ,
1999
(Communications, Information Technology and the
Arts)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986, and for related
purposes
ISBN: 0642
403465
Contents
Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act
1986 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Protection of Movable
Cultural Heritage Act 1986, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage
Amendment Act 1999.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent or on
1 July 1999, whichever last occurs.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any
other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its
terms.
Protection
of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986
1 Subsection 3(1) (definition of
Fund)
Repeal the definition.
2 Subsection 3(1)
Insert:
National Cultural Heritage Account means the Account
established by section 25.
3 Subparagraph 16(a)(iv)
Omit “Fund”, substitute “National Cultural
Heritage Account”.
4 Heading to Part IV
Repeal the heading, substitute:
5 Section 25
Repeal the section, substitute:
(1) There is hereby established the National Cultural Heritage
Account.
(2) The Account is a Special Account for the purposes of the Financial
Management and Accountability Act 1997.
(1) There may be credited to the National Cultural Heritage
Account any money appropriated by the Parliament for an outcome of the
Department.
(2) There must be credited to the National Cultural Heritage
Account:
(a) amounts equal to all money received from a State or Territory, or from
an authority of a State or Territory, for the purposes of the Account;
and
(b) amounts equal to all money received, whether by way of gift, bequest
or otherwise, for the purposes of the Account; and
(c) if amounts are debited from the Account for the purpose of
investment—amounts equal to the interest generated by the
investment.
Amounts standing to the credit of the National Cultural
Heritage Account may be expended for the purpose of facilitating the
acquisition of Australian protected objects for display or
safe-keeping.
6 Subsection 26(1)
Omit “Fund”, substitute “National Cultural
Heritage Account”.
7 Subsection 47(1)
Omit all words after “this Act”, substitute “during the
year that ended on that 30 June”.
8 Subsections 47(2) and (3)
Repeal the subsections, substitute:
(2) The Minister must cause a copy of the report to be laid before each
House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the Minister
receives it.
9 Application of items 7 and
8
Whether this Act commences on 1 July 1999 or on a later date, the
amendments of the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986 made
by items 7 and 8 apply in relation to the financial year commencing on 1 July
1999 and each subsequent financial year.