Western Australian Consolidated Acts

TITLES (VALIDATION) AND NATIVE TITLE (EFFECT OF PAST ACTS) ACT 1995 - SECT 7

7 .         Effect of validation — category A past acts that are public works (ss. 19 & 15(1)(b) NTA)

        (1)         A category A past act to which section 229(4) of the NTA applies extinguishes 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)         If section 229(4)(a) of the NTA applies to the past act, the extinguishment is taken to have happened on 1 January 1994.

        Note:         Section 229(4)(a) of the NTA applies to a past act consisting of the construction or establishment of any public work if the work commenced to be constructed or established before 1 January 1994 and the construction or establishment had not been completed by that day.