Heritage Information Leaflet 1.4

Criteria for Inclusion of State Heritage Places in the South Australian Heritage Register

To protect our built heritage South Australian heritage legislation provides for a South Australian Heritage Register in which places of heritage significance are documented.

The Register lists places of State significance ('State Heritage Places') that meet one or more of the criteria specified in section 16 of the Heritage Places Act 1993 and records places of other levels of significance (eg local, national, world) which are protected under other legislation.

The criteria act as guidelines to help the South Australian Heritage Council in its decision-making regarding inclusion of State Heritage Places in the South Australian Heritage Register. To be entered in the Register a place must be judged to meet at least one of the following criteria:

Criterion (a)
It demonstrates important aspects of the evolution or pattern of the State's history.

Criterion (b)
It has rare, uncommon or endangered qualities that are of cultural significance.

Criterion (c)
It may yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the State's history, including its natural history.

Criterion (d)
It is an outstanding representative of a particular class of places of cultural significance.

Criterion (e)
It demonstrates a high degree of creative, aesthetic or technical accomplishment or is an outstanding representative of particular construction techniques or design characteristics.

Criterion (f)
It has strong cultural or spiritual associations for the community or a group within it.

Criterion (g)
It has a special association with the life or work of a person or organisation or an event of historical importance.