Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 - SECT 3

Main objects

    The main objects of this Act are:

  (a)   to provide for the recognition and protection of native title; and

  (b)   to establish ways in which future dealings affecting native title may proceed and to set standards for those dealings; and

  (c)   to establish a mechanism for determining claims to native title; and

  (d)   to provide for, or permit, the validation of past acts, and intermediate period acts, invalidated because of the existence of native title.