Places listed on the Register remain in a non-statutory archive and are still able to be viewed via the National Heritage Database.
[4] It was incorporated into the Australian Heritage Commission Act 1975[4] and was used to describe a collection of buildings and sites that were worthy of preservation for a variety of reasons.
The Heritage Council eventually made a decision after the public has had time to comment and raise possible objections.
The Australian Heritage Council had to be consulted if any government wanted to take a course of action that might have an adverse effect on a listed subject.
[1] This article incorporates text from Criteria for the Register of the National Estate published by the Commonwealth of Australia 2018 under CC-BY-4.0 licence, accessed on 3 September 2018.