Commonwealth Numbered Acts

LANDS ACQUISITION ACT 1989 No. 15 of 1989 - SECT 5

5. (1) Subject to this section, where:

   (a)  a law of a Territory authorising the acquisition or disposal of land,
        or the acquisition or disposal of interests in land, is in force;

   (b)  that law would, but for this subsection, apply to the acquisition or
        disposal, by an authority, of an interest in particular land; and

   (c)  this Act requires that the Authority acquire or dispose of the
        interest in accordance with this Act; the law of the Territory does
        not apply to that acquisition or disposal.

(2) If a provision referred to in section 21A of the Christmas Island Act 1958
is in operation, this Act does not apply to anything dealt with by the
provision.

(3) This Act does not apply to grants or other dispositions of Crown land in
the Territory of Norfolk Island made under section 62 of the Norfolk Island
Act 1979 .

(4) Except as provided by subsection (1), this Act is not intended to affect
the making or operation of a law of a Territory of a kind referred to in
paragraph (1) (a).