Part 12: Miscellaneous Section 230: Historic environment records Effect
Subsection (1) sets out that a relevant authority must maintain an historic environment record for its area.
	Subsection (2) details that an historic environment record is a system for storing and making available to the public information about various heritage assets, listed in paragraphs (a) (i)-(vii), (b), (c) and (d) (i)-(ii).
	Subsection (3) details that a "designated heritage asset" as defined in subsection (2)(a)(vii) is an object, structure or site designated, registered or otherwise formally recognised under an enactment and that appears to the Secretary of State to be so wholly or partly because of historic, architectural, archaeological or artistic importance.
	Subsection (4) details the circumstances in which it would be expected for the relevant authority to include the information on the historic environment record.
	Subsection (5) specifies that relevant authorities must take such steps as it considers reasonable to (a) obtain information for inclusion in the historic environment record and (b) keep information included in its historic environment record up to date.
	Subsection (6) allows the Secretary of State by regulations to make provisions for (a) how information is to be stored or made available and (b) for and in connection with charging fees by relevant authorities in respect of (i) the provision of advice or assistance to persons making use, or proposing to make use, of an historic environment record, or (ii) the provision of documents copied or derived from an historic environment record.
	Subsection (7) states that under subsection (6)(a) the Secretary of State may, in particular, from time to time publish provisions requiring or enabling information to be stored or made available in accordance with specified standards.
	Subsection (8) sets out which authorities the section applies to.
	Subsection (9) details that (a) the Common Council includes the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, (b) an area comprising a National Park for which there is a National Park authority is the area of that authority and no other relevant authority, and (c) the area comprising the Broads, as defined by section 2(3) of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1998, is the area of the Broads Authority and no other relevant authority.