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1998-1999-2000
The Parliament
of the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Aboriginal
Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill (No. 3)
2000
No. ,
2000
(Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Affairs)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, and for related
purposes
ISBN: 0642 434891
Contents
A Bill for an Act to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights
(Northern Territory) Act 1976, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern
Territory) Amendment Act (No. 3) 2000.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any
other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its
terms.
1 Subsection 11(1AF)
Omit all the words and paragraphs from and including “but for the
existence” to and including “the Minister may”, substitute
“but for the existence on that land of a stock route (other than a stock
route to which subsection 50(2E) applies), then, if the land ceases to be a
stock route, the Minister may”.
Note: The heading to section 11 is replaced by the
heading “Recommendations for grants of Crown land other than
Schedule 1 land and former public roads”.
2 After section 11A
Insert:
(1) This section applies if:
(a) a road over which the public had a right of way existed on land that
is contiguous to Aboriginal land; and
(b) the Minister would have made a recommendation about the land under
section 10 or subsection 11(1), (1AB), (1AD) or (1AE) but for that public
right of way; and
(c) that public right of way ceases to exist.
(2) On application by the Land Council for the area in which the land is
situated, the Minister may recommend that the Governor-General grant an estate
in fee simple for the whole or a part of that land to a Land Trust that holds
contiguous Aboriginal land.
3 Subsection 12(1)
Omit “section 10 or 11”, substitute
“section 10, 11 or 11B”.
4 Paragraph 12(1)(a)
Omit “or section 11”, substitute “, section 11
or 11B”.
5 After subsection 12(3A)
Insert:
(3B) However, subsections (3) and (3A) do not apply to a deed of
grant arising from a recommendation under section 11B.