NATIVE TITLE (NEW SOUTH WALES) ACT 1994 - SCHEDULE 2

NATIVE TITLE (NEW SOUTH WALES) ACT 1994 - SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE 2 – Savings, transitional and other provisions

(Section 107A)

1 Regulations

(1) The regulations may contain provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of the following Acts--

this Act

Native Title (New South Wales) Amendment Act 1998

(2) Any such provision may, if the regulations so provide, take effect from the date of assent to the Act concerned or a later date.

(3) To the extent to which any such provision takes effect from a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as--

(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication, or

(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication.

2 Saving of notifications of native title holders under section 103

The replacement of section 103 by the Native Title (New South Wales) Amendment Act 1998 does not invalidate or affect any notification of an act made at any time before that replacement in accordance with that section as in force at that time.

3 Revival of expired interim provisions of Part 10 of Act

Section 102, as replaced by the Native Title (New South Wales) Amendment Act 1998 has the effect of reviving Part 10 of this Act (which expired on 28 November 1996).