Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS (QUEENSLAND DISCRIMINATORY LAWS) ACT 1975 No. 75 of 1975 - SECT 9

9. (1) Where, in any court established for a Reserve, proceedings are
instituted against an Aboriginal or Islander for an offence, the Aboriginal or
Islander is entitled to be represented in those proceedings by a legal
practitioner.

(2) An Aboriginal or Islander shall not be convicted of an offence by a
court established for a Reserve unless the Aboriginal or Islander, if
convicted of the offence, would have the same right or rights of appeal
against, or review of, the conviction as he would have if a Magistrates Court
established under the law of Queensland had jurisdiction with respect to the
offence and he were convicted of the offence by the Magistrates Court.
(3) In this section, ''court established for a Reserve'' means any court or
other tribunal (whether known as an Aboriginal Court or as an Island Court, or
by any other name) established, by or under a law of Queensland, for a Reserve
or for a community of Aborigines (that is to say, a community of persons who
are descendants of indigenous inhabitants of Australia, other than the Torres
Strait Islands) or for a community of Torres Strait Islanders (that is to say,
a community of persons who are descendants of indigenous inhabitants of the
Torres Strait Islands).