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PASTORAL LAND ACT - SECT 70

Subleases for Aboriginal communities

70. Subleases for Aboriginal communities

(1) Notwithstanding section 38(1)(d) and 68(5), a pastoral lessee may, with the consent of the Minister, sublet part of the land the subject of his or her pastoral lease for Aboriginal community living purposes to an incorporated body set up for the management of the Aboriginal community by which the area subleased is or is to be used.

(2) For the purposes of this section Aboriginal community living purposes includes residential, educational and medical purposes, the keeping of livestock and poultry and the growing of fruit and vegetables for use by the Aborigines in the community.

(3) Where the Territory erects improvements on an area the subject of a pastoral lease sublet for Aboriginal community living purposes, it may, within 3 months after the expiration or sooner determination of the sublease, remove the improvements (including fixtures so erected by the Territory) without liability for compensation to the pastoral lessee.



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