Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 1976 No. 191 of 1976 - SECT 4

PART II-GRANTS OF LAND TO ABORIGINAL LAND TRUSTS
4. (1) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, establish
Aboriginal Land Trusts to hold title to land in the Northern Territory for the
benefit of groups of Aboriginals entitled by Aboriginal tradition to the use
or occupation of the land concerned, whether or not the traditional
entitlement is qualified as to place, time, circumstance, purpose or
permission, and shall so establish Land Trusts to hold the Crown land
described in Schedule 1.

(2) A notice published under sub-section (1) shall-

   (a)  specify the name of the Land Trust;

   (b)  identify the Aboriginal groups for whose benefit land is to be held by
        the Land Trust; and

   (c)  set out the boundaries of the land to be held by the Land Trust.

(3) A Land Trust-

   (a)  is a body corporate, with perpetual succession;

   (b)  shall have a common seal;

   (c)  subject to this Part, may acquire, hold and dispose of real and
        personal property; and

   (d)  may sue and be sued in its corporate name.

(4) The common seal of a Land Trust shall be kept by a member of the staff of
the Land Council in the area of which the Land Trust holds land who has been
authorized by the Land Council for the purpose.

(5) The common seal of a Land Trust shall be affixed to a document only with a
written authority signed by the Chairman and at least 2 other members of the
Land Trust.

(6) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially shall take notice of the
common seal of a Land Trust affixed to a document and shall presume that it
was duly affixed.