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ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1978

Table of Provisions

PART 1--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 and others may enter 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 and others may enter 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.  
  • ENDNOTES

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