Western Australian Consolidated Acts

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

12O .         Notification (ss. 23I & 23HA NTA)

                In the case of a previous non-exclusive possession act to which section 23F(3)(c)(ii) of the NTA applies — 

            (a)         notice must be given, in the way determined in writing by the Commonwealth Minister, to any — 

                  (i)         representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander bodies;

                  (ii)         registered native title bodies corporate; and

                  (iii)         registered native title claimants,

                in relation to the land or waters that will be affected by the act, about the doing or proposed doing of the act, or acts of that class, in relation to the land or waters concerned; and

            (b)         they must be given an opportunity to comment on the act or class of acts.

        Note:         The acts to which section 23F(3)(c)(ii) of the NTA applies are those giving effect after 23 December 1996 to arrangements made on or before that date in good faith, and evidenced in writing, for the grant of non-exclusive agricultural leases or non-exclusive pastoral leases.

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