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assist local authorities to manage heritage resources in their areas of
jurisdiction; and
(k) provide for any areas of responsibility in terms of this Act or any provincial
heritage resources legislation when a local authority does not have competence, or has insufficient capacity, to perform a function in terms of the criteria
prescribed under section 8(6).
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General powers and duties of heritage resources authorities
25. (1) A heritage resources authority must—
(a) furnish information, advice and assistance to enhance public sensitivity
towards and awareness of the need for management of the national estate;
(b) maintain a list of conservation bodies which have, in accordance with
regulations by the heritage resources authority concerned, registered their
interest in—
(i) a geographical area; or
(ii) a category of heritage resources;
(c) regularly inspect heritage resources which are formally protected by the
heritage resources authority concerned in terms of any provision of Part 1 of
Chapter II;
(d) endeavour to assist any community or body of persons with an established
interest in any heritage resource to obtain reasonable access to such heritage
resource, should they request it, and may for this purpose—
(i) enter into negotiations with the owner of such resource;
(ii) facilitate the making of arrangements as may be required for the
achievement of such access, including the execution of a heritage
agreement under section 42; and
(iii) if such negotiations are unsuccessful, refer the matter to the Minister or
MEC, as the case may be; and
(e) make arrangements to ensure the protection and management of all heritage
resources and property owned or controlled by it or vested in it.
(2) A heritage resources authority may—
(a) promote and engage in research relating to the identification, assessment and
management of the national estate as necessary for the performance of its
functions;
(b) publish, or by any other means make available or distribute in any form, or
cause to be published or distributed, any knowledge and information relating
to the national estate and any of its functions or activities;
(c) inspect or document any heritage resource—
(i) which has the potential to become protected in terms of this Act;
(ii) which is, or which the heritage authority has reason to believe may be, so
protected; or
(iii) which it wishes to document for research purposes, for purposes of
building up a public record of heritage resources or as part of an
investigation into a suspected offence in terms of this Act,
and must maintain a register of such inspections;
(d) whenever it is investigating the desirability of protecting any place in terms of
this Act, take such steps as it considers necessary—
(i) for erecting beacons on the corners of and surveying and preparing a
diagram or plan of such place; or
(ii) for determining by survey the location of such place or object in relation
to the beacons and boundaries of the land on which it is situated;
(e) undertake or make arrangements for the presentation of any place under its
control or, after consultation with the Department concerned, any heritage site
which is owned by the State;
(f) by agreement with the authority or body concerned, co-operate in the
management of any heritage resource which is owned or controlled by the
State or a supported body;
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