Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 - SECT 3

Main objects

                   The main objects of this Act are:

                     (a)  to provide for the recognition and protection of native title; and

                     (b)  to establish ways in which future dealings affecting native title may proceed and to set standards for those dealings; and

                     (c)  to establish a mechanism for determining claims to native title; and

                     (d)  to provide for, or permit, the validation of past acts, and intermediate period acts, invalidated because of the existence of native title.