The Victorian Heritage Register is maintained by Heritage Victoria, part of the Department of Sustainability and Environment a department of the Government of Victoria, Australia. It lists significant buildings and other sites in Victoria and provides legal protection against demolition or other alterations to listed sites. Delisting of a site requires the intervention of the relevant government minister. The form of the Government of Victoria is prescribed in its Constitution, which dates from 1855, although it has been amended many times since then. ...
Both the State HeritageRegister and State Heritage Inventory are available as searchable databases via the NSW Heritage Office.
The State HeritageRegister is maintained on a computerised database and printouts arranged by local government area are available for public inspection at the Heritage Branch, 91-97 Grenfell St, Adelaide, during normal office hours.
The Register database is maintained on behalf of the Queensland Heritage Council by the Cultural Heritage Unit, Environment Protection Agency.
The Victorian Supreme Court found that Ms Rajendran made changes to a property listed on the VictorianHeritageRegister without a permit, in the first order by the Supreme Court made under the Heritage Act 1995.
Heritage Victoria's executive director, Ray Tonkin, said the decision was a landmark for Victorianheritage and recognised that owners of heritage properties were custodians of the state's heritage.
The heritageregister citation describes the Riversdale Road house as unique because Boyd designed it for his own use and occupied and extended over 12 years.