ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1978
ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1978
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
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.
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