Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 1976 No. 191 of 1976 - SECT 11

11. (1) Where-

   (a)  the Commissioner recommends to the Minister in a report made to him
        under paragraph 50 (1) (a) that an area of Crown land should be
        granted to a Land Trust for the benefit of a group or groups of
        Aboriginals entitled by Aboriginal tradition to the use or occupation
        of that area of land, whether or not the traditional entitlement is
        qualified as to place, time, circumstance, purpose or permission; and

   (b)  the Minister is satisfied that the land should be so granted, the
        Minister shall-

   (c)  establish a Land Trust under section 4 to hold that land for the
        benefit of that group or those groups of Aboriginals;

   (d)  in the case of alienated Crown land, ensure that the estates and
        interests in that land of persons (other than the Crown) are acquired
        by the Crown by surrender or otherwise; and

   (e)  after any acquisition referred to in paragraph (d) has been effected,
        recommend to the Governor-General that a grant of an estate in fee
        simple in that land be made to that Land Trust.

(2) If the Commission appointed by instrument published in the Gazette on 16
July 1975 under section 11 of the
Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals)  Act 1974 to conduct an inquiry
in relation to the proposal for the development of uranium deposits in the
Northern Territory has, for the purposes of its inquiry, made a finding that a
group or groups of Aboriginals are entitled by Aboriginal tradition to the use
or occupation of an area of land, this section has effect as if the
Commissioner had recommended to the Minister in a report made by him under
paragraph 50 (1) (a) that the area should be granted to a Land Trust for the
benefit of that group or those groups of Aboriginals.

(3) A reference in sub-section (1) to land shall be read as not including a
reference to any land on which there is a road over which the public has a
right of way.