Western Australian Consolidated Acts

TITLES (VALIDATION) AND NATIVE TITLE (EFFECT OF PAST ACTS) ACT 1995 - SECT 6

6 .         Effect of validation — category A past acts that are not public works (ss. 19 & 15(1)(a) NTA)

                A category A past act, other than a past act to which section 229(4) of the NTA applies, extinguishes the native title concerned.

        Note:         In the NTA “category A past act” is defined in section 229 to mean (with exceptions and qualifications) — 
            (a)         freehold grants;
            (b)         some leasehold grants (commercial, agricultural, pastoral and residential leases and, in certain circumstances, mining leases so far as they apply to certain developed land); and
            (c)         public works.