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ABORIGINAL LANDS ACT 1991 - SECT 3 Revocation of existing reservations and Crown Grants

ABORIGINAL LANDS ACT 1991 - SECT 3

Revocation of existing reservations and Crown Grants

    (1)     On receiving survey plans signed by the Surveyor-General of those parts of the lands described in Schedule 1 as are shown hatched on the plan in Schedule 3 and hatched and cross hatched on the plans in Schedules 2 and 4 or those lands as nearly as practicable the Minister may recommend to the Governor in Council that an Order be made revoking the reservations of the lands shown in the plans of survey.

    (2)     On the Minister's recommendation under subsection (1) the Governor in Council by Order published in the Government Gazette may revoke the reservations of the land described in Schedule 1 to the extent that they apply to the land in the plans of survey.

    (3)     On the publication in the Government Gazette of an Order under subsection (2)—

        (a)     the reservations of the land referred to in Schedule 1 are revoked to the extent that they apply to the lands in the plans of survey; and

        (b)     despite any Act or law to the contrary, the land is deemed to be unalienated land of the Crown freed and discharged from all trusts, limitations, reservations, restrictions, encumbrances, estates and interests.