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TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER LAND ACT 1991 - SECT 134

When agreement of Torres Strait Islanders is given

134 When agreement of Torres Strait Islanders is given

If this Act provides that Torres Strait Islanders be generally in agreement with a grant, consent or agreement about Torres Strait Islander land, the agreement of the Torres Strait Islanders is taken to have been given when—

(a) if there is a particular process of decision-making that, under the Island custom of the Torres Strait Islanders, must be complied with for decisions of that kind—the decision was made under the process; or
(b) otherwise—the decision was made under the process of decision-making agreed to and adopted by the Torres Strait Islanders for the decision or for decisions of that kind.



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