Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 No. 110, 1993 - SECT 61

61.(1) The following table sets out applications that may be made under this
Division to the Native Title Registrar and the persons who may make each of
those applications:
APPLICATIONS Kind of application
Application
Persons who may make application Native title determination application
Application under subsection 13(1) for a determination of
native title.

(1) A person or persons claiming to hold the
native title either alone or with others; or

(2) A person who holds an interest in relation
to the whole of the area in relation to which the
determination is sought; or

(3) The Commonwealth Minister; or

(4) The State Minister or the Territory
Minister, if the determination is sought in
relation to an area wholly within the
jurisdictional limits of the State or Territory
concerned. Revised native title determination application
Application under subsection 13(1) for revocation or
variation of an approved determination of native title.

(1) The registered native title body corporate;
or

(2) The Commonwealth Minister; or

(3) The State Minister or the Territory
Minister, if the determination is sought in
relation to an area within the jurisdictional
limits of the State or Territory concerned; or

(4) The Registrar. Compensation application
Application under subsection 50(2) for a determination
for compensation.

(1) The registered native title body corporate
(if any); or

(2) A person or persons claiming to be entitled
to the compensation either alone or with others. Form and contents

(2) An application must be in the prescribed form and be given to the
Registrar. It must also contain such information in relation to the matters
sought to be determined as is prescribed. Claims to hold title with other
persons

(3) An application made by a person or persons claiming to hold native title,
or to be entitled to compensation, with others must describe or otherwise
identify those others. In doing so, it is not necessary to name them or to say
how many there are.