TRADITIONAL OWNER SETTLEMENT ACT 2010 - SECT 81A Power to enter into natural resource agreements for land owned by traditional owners

TRADITIONAL OWNER SETTLEMENT ACT 2010 - SECT 81A

    (1)     The Minister, on behalf of the State, may enter into an agreement with a traditional owner group entity as to the carrying out of activities referred to in section 82 on land—

        (a)     which is within the external boundaries of an area of land in respect of which a recognition and settlement agreement entered into by the traditional owner group entity is in force; and

        (b)     in which the traditional owner group entity or a member of the traditional owner group bound by the agreement has an estate in fee simple, other than land over which aboriginal title has been granted.

    (2)     An agreement under subsection (1) may provide for any matter that may be provided for in a natural resource agreement, so far as the provision is consistent with the tenure of the land as land in which an estate in fee simple has been granted.

    (3)     An agreement under subsection (1) has effect on whichever is the later of—

        (a)     the day on which it is made; or

        (b)     the day specified in the agreement.

    (4)     An agreement under subsection (1)—

        (a)     may be revoked, amended or varied as agreed in the agreement; and

        (b)     remains in force until—

              (i)     another agreement under subsection (1) dealing with the same land has effect; or

              (ii)     it is revoked as agreed in the agreement; or

              (iii)     it lapses or ceases to have effect according to the terms of the agreement.

S. 81B inserted by No. 67/2016 s. 23.