Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A reference in section 8 to the movable cultural heritage of Australia is a reference to objects that are of importance to Australia, or to a particular part of Australia, for ethnological, archaeological, historical, literary, artistic, scientific or technological reasons, being objects falling within one or more of the following categories:
(a) objects recovered from:
(i) the soil or inland waters of Australia;
(ii) the coastal sea of Australia or the waters above the continental shelf of Australia; or
(iii) the seabed or subsoil beneath the sea or waters referred to in subparagraph (ii);
(b) objects relating to members of the Aboriginal race of Australia and descendants of the indigenous inhabitants of the Torres Strait Islands;
(c) objects of ethnographic art or ethnography;
(d) military objects;
(e) objects of decorative art;
(f) objects of fine art;
(g) objects of scientific or technological interest;
(h) books, records, documents or photographs, graphic, film or television material or sound recordings;
(j) any other prescribed categories.
(2) The generality of paragraph (1)(j) is not limited by any of the other paragraphs of subsection (1).