(1) As soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act, any Royal arms
of the United Kingdom used to represent the authority of the Crown in right of
the State or the State in or on any public building, or public place that is
the property of the Crown in right of the State or of the State and is
intended to represent the authority of the Crown in right of the State or of
the State, are to be removed and replaced by the State arms.
(2) As soon as
practicable (but in any event within 3 years) after the commencement of this
Act, any Royal Arms of the United Kingdom on any document, seal or other
object (not being a fixture or otherwise part of a building) that is the
property of the Crown in right of the State or of the State, and is intended
to be used to represent the authority of the Crown in right of the State or of
the State, are to be removed and replaced by the State arms.
(3) Subsection
(1) does not apply in relation to a building or place in respect of which the
Premier, after consultation with the Heritage Council, determines that the
Royal arms of the United Kingdom there displayed form an integral part of an
item of the environmental heritage of the State.
(4) In any building or place
to which subsection (1) does not apply because of subsection (3), the State
arms must be used and displayed in a prominent position to represent the
authority of the Crown in right of the State or the State, as the case may be,
in addition to the Royal arms of the United Kingdom while they continue to be
displayed there.
(5) Sculpted arms, or arms in any durable form, that are
removed in accordance with this section are to be housed or otherwise dealt
with in such manner as the Premier, after consultation with the Heritage
Council, may direct. Such a direction is to be aimed at their being housed or
otherwise dealt with in a manner that, whether they are to be held in public
or private ownership, will ensure their appropriate conservation,
interpretation and display as part of the constitutional, legal, cultural and
artistic heritage of the State.
(6) Consultation with the Heritage Council is
sufficient for the purposes of this section if the Premier has requested
advice from the Council about the matter concerned and has taken into
consideration any response received from the Council within 60 days of making
the request.
