Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND ACT

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
   3A.     Status of roads

   PART II - ENTRY ONTO ABORIGINAL LAND

   4.      Entry onto, &c., Aboriginal land or road
   5.      Issue of permits
   5A.     Administrator may issue permits to use roads in certain circumstances
   6.      Minister may issue permits to certain government employees
   6A.     Permit to include immediate family
   7.      Members of Parliament, &c., may enter, &c., Aboriginal land
   8.      Entry of dwellings
   9.      Defence in certain circumstances
   10.     Estates or interests on Aboriginal land protected
   11.     Open areas

   PART III - CONTROL OF ENTRY ONTO SEAS ADJOINING ABORIGINAL LAND

   12.     Administrator may close seas
   13.     Administrator may re-open closed seas
   14.     Entry onto, &c., closed seas
   15.     Issue of permits
   16.     The Minister may issue permits to government employees on certain conditions
   17.     Members of Parliament, &c., may enter, &c., closed seas
   18.     Permit to be granted to protect existing rights
   19.     Defence in certain circumstances
   20.     Seas open to transit vessels

   PART IV - GENERAL

   21.     No prosecution except on authority of Land Council
   22.     Vehicles, &c., may be stopped and questions asked
   23.     Offence to refuse to produce permit, &c.