Western Australian Consolidated Acts

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

12I .         Confirmation of extinguishment of native title by previous exclusive possession acts of State, other than public works (ss. 23E & 23C(1) NTA)

        (1)         In this section —

        relevant act means a previous exclusive possession act —

            (a)         under section 23B(2)(a), (b) and (c)(ii) of the NTA (including because of section 23B(3)); or

            (b)         under section 23B(2)(a), (b) and (c)(i), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) or (viii) of the NTA if the Scheduled interest or lease concerned was still in force on 23 December 1996.

        (1a)         If a relevant act is attributable to the State —

            (a)         the act extinguishes any native title in relation to the land or waters covered by the freehold estate, Scheduled interest or lease concerned; and

            (b)         the extinguishment is taken to have happened when the act was done.

        (2)         If this section applies to the act, sections 6, 8 and 12B do not apply to the act.

        Note:         Under section 23B(2) and (3) of the NTA, the estates and interests to which this section applies (subject to the limitation in paragraph (b) of the definition of “relevant act”) are those validly granted or vested on or before 23 December 1996 and consisting of —
                •         a Scheduled interest;
                •         a freehold estate (including what is taken by section 23B(3) to be a freehold estate); and
                •         certain leaseholds (commercial leases, exclusive agricultural and pastoral leases, residential leases, community purpose leases, other leases (other than mining leases) that confer a right of exclusive possession, and in certain circumstances mining leases so far as they apply to certain developed land).

        [Section 12I inserted by No. 9 of 1999 s.7; amended by No. 55 of 1999 s.4.]