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ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 1976 - SECT 21A

Aboriginal group or body may seek establishment of new Land Council

  (1)   The following may apply to the Minister, in writing, for the establishment of a new Land Council for a qualifying area:

  (a)   one or more adult Aboriginals living in the qualifying area;

  (b)   an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation, the majority of whose members live in the qualifying area;

  (d)   an association of Aboriginals, or a company whose shareholders are all Aboriginals, incorporated under a law of the Northern Territory and the majority of whose members or shareholders live in the qualifying area;

  (e)   any other body prescribed by the regulations, the majority of whose members live in the qualifying area.

  (2)   An application must:

  (a)   set out the boundaries of the qualifying area; and

  (b)   specify a name for the proposed new Land Council; and

  (c)   include an estimate of the number of Aboriginals living in the qualifying area and an explanation of how the estimate was arrived at; and

  (d)   specify the proposed management structure for the proposed new Land Council; and

  (e)   specify the proposed arrangements for consulting and representing Aboriginals living in the qualifying area on issues affecting that area; and

  (f)   include details of any consultation that has occurred with Aboriginals living in the qualifying area on the proposed establishment of the new Land Council; and

  (g)   include any other information prescribed by the regulations.


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