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Penalty provisions - Underwater Cultural Heritage

View the fees and fines payable under the Heritage Act 2017

Entering a protected zone

Activities prohibited within protected zones - entry.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 8
Penalty: $9,879.50 (50 penalty units)

Mooring in a protected zone

Activities prohibited within protected zones - mooring.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 9
Penalty: $9,879.50 (50 penalty units)

Prohibited activities in a protected zone

Activities prohibited within protected zones - trawling, fishing or diving.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 10
Penalty: $9,879.50 (50 penalty units)

Prohibited additional activities in a protected zone

Activities prohibited within protected zones - use of equipment constructed for the purpose of diving, salvage or recovery operations.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 11
Penalty: $9,879.50 (50 penalty units)

Prohibited salvage equipment in a protected zone

Activities prohibited within protected zones - use of equipment adapted for the purpose of diving, salvage or recovery operations.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 12
Penalty: $9,879.50 (50 penalty units)

Excavation equipment in a protected zone

Activities prohibited within protected zones - use of equipment, instruments or tools constructed for the purposes of cultivating, mining, quarrying, dredging or excavating land.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 13
Penalty: $9,879.50 (50 penalty units)

Adapted excavation equipment in a protected zone

Activities prohibited within protected zones - use of equipment, instruments or tools adapted for the purposes of cultivating, mining, quarrying, dredging or excavating land.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 14
Penalty: $9,879.50 (50 penalty units)

Explosives in a protected zone

Activities prohibited within protected zones - entry of ship or other vehicle carrying any equipment, explosives, instruments or tools.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 15
Penalty: $9,879.50 (50 penalty units)

Excavating in a protected zone

Activities prohibited within protected zones - cultivating, mining, quarrying, dredging or excavating.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 16
Penalty: $9,879.50 (50 penalty units)

Prohibited activities near shipwrecks or in protected zones

Activities prohibited near registered shipwrecks, historic shipwrecks, registered shipwreck artefacts or historic shipwreck artefacts or in any protected zone.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 17
Penalty: $9,879.50 (50 penalty units)

Infringement penalty

Infringement penalty against regulation 8 or 9.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 22 (a)
Penalty: $592.77 (3 penalty units)

Infringement penalty

Infringement penalty against regulation 10.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 22 (b)
Penalty: $1,185.541 (6 penalty units)

Infringement penalty

Infringement penalty against regulation 11 or 13.

Heritage (Underwater Cultural Heritage) Regulation: 22 (c)
Penalty: $1,975.90 (10 penalty units)

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