ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1991 - SECT 178 When agreement of Aboriginal people is given

ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1991 - SECT 178

178 When agreement of Aboriginal people is given

If this Act provides that Aboriginal people be generally in agreement with a grant, consent or agreement about Aboriginal land, the agreement of the Aboriginal people is taken to have been given when—

(a) if there is a particular process of decision-making that, under the Aboriginal tradition of the Aboriginal people, must be complied with for decisions of that kind—the decision was made under the process; or

(b) otherwise—the decision was made under the process of decision-making agreed to and adopted by the Aboriginal people for the decision or for decisions of that kind.