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1996-97
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Aboriginal
Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill
1997
No. ,
1997
(Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Affairs)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, and for related
purposes
9708520—899/16.6.1997—(85/97) Cat. No.
96 9168 5 ISBN 0644 504625
Contents
A Bill for an Act to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights
(Northern Territory) Act 1976, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern
Territory) Amendment Act 1997.
(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it
receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), Schedule 1 commences on a day to be fixed
by Proclamation.
(3) If Schedule 1 does not commence within 12 months after the day on
which this Act receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after
the end of that period.
Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this
Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to
its terms.
1 Subsection 67A(5)
Omit “A traditional”, substitute “Subject to subsection
(6), a traditional”.
2 At the end of section 67A
Add:
(6) If:
(a) an application has been made under section 50 by or on behalf of
Aboriginals claiming to have a traditional land claim to an area of land;
and
(b) subsection 50(2D) applies to the application;
the traditional land claim, in so far as it relates to that area of land,
is taken to have been finally disposed of.