The Shire of Toodyay and a contractor have been charged with breaching the Aboriginal Heritage Act, within the first take a look at of the State’s amended heritage legal guidelines.
The Shire and the contractor, who could possibly be hit with fines of as much as $50,000, have been charged with breaching the legal guidelines over work alongside waterways.
Both the Shire and the contractor are as a result of face court docket on February 26 on prices they excavated, broken, or in any other case altered an Aboriginal web site.
The ABC reported the work is believed to have included altering a waterway to stop erosion.
The prices come after the State Government was pressured to scrap its revised Aboriginal heritage legal guidelines with landowners and the Opposition elevating considerations concerning the complexity of the legal guidelines.
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The legal guidelines, which had been rewritten following the Rio Tinto destruction of Juukan Gorge caves, had been reverted to the unique 1972 Cultural Heritage Act, with conventional house owners empowered to attraction selections.
Under the laws, a person present in breach of the act could possibly be fined $20,000 and jailed for 9 months.
The shire faces a effective of $50,000.
The Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage has been approached for remark.
https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/shire-of-toodyay-and-contractor-face-50000-fine-after-breaching-aboriginal-heritage-act-c-13563324
