You will need this approval if you intend to interfere with an Aboriginal relic. Aboriginal relics include artefacts and objects, sites and places, and remains which have significance to the Aboriginal people of Tasmania.
Interfering with a relic includes the following activities:
- destroying, damaging, defacing, concealing or otherwise interfering with a relic
- using rubbing, tracing or other forms of direct contact to make a copy of a relic carving or engraving
- removing a relic from the place where it was found or abandoned
- selling or offering or expose for sale, exchange or otherwise dispose of a relic or any other object that so nearly resembles a relic as to be likely to deceive or be capable of being mistaken for a relic
- taking a relic, or causing or permitting a relic to be taken out of Tasmania
- causing an excavation to be made or any other work to be carried out on Crown Land for the purpose of searching for a relic.
It is recommended you contact the agency at the beginning of your planning process.
