Section 341ZB — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Heritage assessments and registers

(1) A Commonwealth agency must do all of the following within the period mentioned in its heritage strategy: (a) conduct a program to identify Commonwealth Heritage values for each place it owns or controls; (b) produce a register that sets out, for each place it owns or controls, the Commonwealth Heritage values (if any) of that place; (c) give the Minister a written report that includes: (i) details of the program; and (ii) a copy of the register. (2) The regulations may prescribe all or any of the following: (a) how Commonwealth heritage values may be identified for a place; (b) matters a register must address; (c) matters a report to the Minister must address. (3) A Commonwealth agency must keep its register up to date. (4) A register may be kept electronically. (5) If a report under paragraph (1)(c) indicates that a place owned or controlled by a Commonwealth agency may have one or more Commonwealth Heritage values, information from the report may be used or referred to in a nomination of the place for inclusion in the Commonwealth Heritage List.