Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1978

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Definitions  
   3A.     Status of roads  

   PART II--ENTRY ONTO ABORIGINAL LAND

   4.      Entry onto, &c., Aboriginal land or road  
   5.      Issue of permits  
   5A.     Administrator may issue permits to use roads in certain circumstances  
   6.      Minister may issue permits to certain government employees  
   6A.     Permit to include immediate family  
   7.      Members of Parliament and others may enter Aboriginal land  
   8.      Entry of dwellings  
   9.      Defence in certain circumstances  
   10.     Estates or interests on Aboriginal land protected  
   11.     Open areas  

   PART III--CONTROL OF ENTRY ONTO SEAS ADJOINING ABORIGINAL LAND

   12.     Administrator may close seas  
   13.     Administrator may re-open closed seas  
   14.     Entry onto, &c., closed seas  
   15.     Issue of permits  
   16.     The Minister may issue permits to government employees on certain conditions  
   17.     Members of Parliament and others may enter closed seas  
   18.     Permit to be granted to protect existing rights  
   19.     Defence in certain circumstances  
   20.     Seas open to transit vessels  

   PART IV--GENERAL

   21.     No prosecution except on authority of Land Council  
   22.     Vehicles, &c., may be stopped and questions asked  
   23.     Offence to refuse to produce permit, &c.  
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