Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023
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Minister may amend or delete particulars entered in Register, etc. | ||
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17. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister may amend or delete any particulars entered in the Register. | ||
(2) Sections 14 to 16 shall, with all necessary modifications, apply to an amendment or deletion of particulars entered in the Register that the Minister proposes to make or has made as those sections apply to particulars that the Minister proposes to enter or has entered in the Register. | ||
(3) Any reference in this Act to the entering of particulars in the Register includes a reference to the amendment of particulars entered in the Register or the deletion of particulars entered in the Register, or both. | ||
(4) Any reference in this Act to an amendment to, or a deletion from, the Register includes a reference to, respectively, an amendment to, or a deletion from, cartographic information associated with the Register pursuant to section 15 (1)(b). | ||
(5) Where the Minister is minded to take a Register action which, if taken, will cause a registered monument to cease to be a registered monument, he or she shall— | ||
(a) consult with the Council to seek its views (if any) on the action, | ||
(b) have regard to those views (if any) in deciding whether or not to take the action, and | ||
(c) if the Minister takes that action (or another Register action in substitution therefor) contrary to those views (if any), publish, on the website of the Department, a reasoned response to those views. | ||
(6) The Council may, for the purposes of forming any views referred to in subsection (5)(a), consult with such public authorities or other persons as it thinks fit. |