ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1991 - SECT 303
Continued operation of provisions for appointing grantees
ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1991 - SECT 303
Continued operation of provisions for appointing grantees
303 Continued operation of provisions for appointing grantees
(1) This section applies despite the amendment of this Act by the Aboriginal
Land and Torres Strait Islander Land and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2011
.
(2) The Minister may, on or before 31 December 2011 and under previous
section 40, appoint persons the Minister considers necessary to be the
grantees, as trustees for the benefit of Aboriginal people, of land the
subject of a deed of grant under previous section 38.
(3) The Minister may,
on or before 31 December 2011 and under previous section 75, appoint persons
the Minister considers necessary to be the grantees, as trustees for the
benefit of the group of Aboriginal people concerned, of land.
(4) If the
Minister appoints grantees under previous section 40 or 75, the grantees are,
on appointment, taken to be incorporated as a land trust under this Act for
the land.
(5) As soon as practicable after the grantees are incorporated, the
Minister must, by gazette notice, state—
(a) the name of the land trust; and
(b) the description of the land as stated in the deed of grant held by the
grantees; and
(c) an address for service of documents on the land trust.
(6)
The last 2 words of the name of the land trust must be the words ‘Land
Trust’.
