New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NATIVE TITLE (NEW SOUTH WALES) ACT 1994 - SECT 103

103 Satisfying right of native title holders to be notified of an act

(1) This section applies if:

(a) because of any law of the Commonwealth or the State, native title holders have a procedural right that requires another person to notify them of an act, and

(b) there has been no approved determination of native title.

(2) One way in which the person may give the required notice is by notifying in the approved manner the following that the act is to take place:

(a) any representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander bodies for the area concerned,

(b) any registered native title claimants in relation to land or waters in the area concerned.

(3) The approved manner of notification is:

(a) the manner of notification prescribed by the law of the Commonwealth or the State for notifying the holders of ordinary title of the act concerned, or

(b) if there is no such manner of notification prescribed-by post or in such other manner to which the notified body or person agrees.

Note: If notification of the act is required for the purposes of complying with section 24KA, 24MD or 24NA NTA, the notification requirements of section 24KA (8), 24MD (7) or 24NA (9) NTA apply.