Western Australian Consolidated Acts

TITLES (VALIDATION) AND NATIVE TITLE (EFFECT OF PAST ACTS) ACT 1995 - SECT 12C

12C .         Effect of validation — category A intermediate period acts involving public works (ss. 22F & 22B(b) NTA)

        (1)         A category A intermediate period act to which section 232B(7) of the NTA applies extinguishes the native title in relation to the land or waters on which the public work concerned (on completion of its construction or establishment) was or is situated.

        (2)         The extinguishment is taken to have happened when the construction or establishment began.

        (3)         Subsection (1) has effect subject to section 24EBA(6) of the NTA.

        Note:         This section does not apply to an act if section 12J of this Act applies to it.
                The effect of this section can be changed by an agreement that complies with section 24EBA of the NTA (see subsections (1)(a)(iii) and (6) of that section).

        [Section 12C inserted by No. 9 of 1999 s.7.]