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ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) (LAND DESCRIPTION) (FORSTERRANGE (STIRLING) AND OTHER LOCALITIES) REGULATIONS 1992 NO. 107

Statutory Rules 1992 No. 107

Issued by the Authority of the Minister of State for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) (Land Description) (Forster Range (Stirling) and other Localities) Regulations

These Regulations were made under section 78 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (the Act) which provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Subsection 4(1) of the Act provides for the establishment of Aboriginal Land Trusts, to hold Crown land as described in Schedule 1 to the Act. Schedule 1 consists of Parts 1 to 3.

Section 77C of the Act permits the description of an area of land in Part 2 or 3 of Schedule 1 to be modified by the regulations. The power to modify in respect of a given description ceases when the land is vested in a Land Trust. Section 77C was included in the Act to allow for minor correction of descriptions of the land (prior to the vesting of that land in an Aboriginal Land Trust) where survey or other evidence enables the boundaries of the land included in Part 2 or 3 of Schedule 1 to be described with a greater degree of precision.

Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Act includes descriptions of areas of land in the Northern Territory known as the Forster Range (Stirling) Locality, the Jinka Locality, the Wycliffe Well Locality and the Yambah Locality.

These areas of land have not yet been vested in Land Trusts. The areas concerned were originally described in Schedule 1 to the Act as accurately as possible, as follows:

•       Forster Range (Stirling) Locality: by means of a diagram.

•       Jinka Locality: by means of a diagram.

•       Wycliffe Well Locality: by reference to a Survey Plan lodged with the Northern Territory Surveyor General for one parcel of land and by means of a diagram for another.

•       Yambah Locality: by means of a metes and bounds description for one parcel of land and by means of a diagram for two other parcels of lands.

All of the areas of land have now been surveyed and the Regulations provided for the substitution in Schedule 1 to the Act of new descriptions referring to survey plans.

The Regulations will take effect from the date of notification in the Gazette.