In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –

Aboriginal land means –

(a) land vested in the Council under section 27(1) ; or

(b) any land declared by the Minister to be Aboriginal land under section 35A ;

Aboriginal person means a person specified in section 3A ;

burdening rights , in relation to land, includes rights, conditions or covenants relating to that land, whether registered or unregistered, legal or registrable, created or implied or existing or capable of existing;

Cape Barren Island group means Cape Barren Island, Long Island, Preservation Island, Passage Island, Forsyth Island, Clarke Island, Badger Island and Mount Chappell Island;

certificate of election means a certificate issued under section 16 (1) ;

Council means the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania established under section 5 ;

electoral area means any of the following:

(a) the south region;

(b) the north region;

(c) the north-west region;

(d) the Flinders Island group;

(e) the Cape Barren Island group;

Electoral Commissioner means the Electoral Commissioner appointed under section 14 of the Electoral Act 2004 ;

eligible elector , in relation to an electoral area, means a person whose name is entered on the Roll for an address within that area at the time and date fixed by the Electoral Commissioner under section 12(2) for the relevant election;

estate , in relation to land, includes all easements, licences, leases, rights of occupation or possession, habitual access or other burdening rights relating to that land;

Flinders Island group means Flinders Island and all islands, except Long Island, Badger Island and Mount Chappell Island, to the north of Cape Barren Island in the Flinders municipal area;

local Aboriginal group , in relation to an area of Aboriginal land, means an Aboriginal group nominated by the Council for that area;

north region means that part of the State comprising the city of Launceston and the municipal areas of Break O'Day, Dorset, George Town, Meander Valley, Northern Midlands and West Tamar;

north-west region means that part of the State comprising the cities of Burnie and Devonport and the municipal areas of Central Coast, Circular Head, Kentish, King Island, Latrobe, Waratah-Wynyard and West Coast;

Preliminary Roll means the Preliminary Roll prepared under section 10(2A) ;

Register means the register of title to land referred to in section 33 of the Land Titles Act 1980 ;

regulations means regulations made under this Act;

reserved road means a road (however described) which has been reserved in a land grant or a folio of the Register of title or by the exercise of a power of reservation conferred by or under an Act;

Roll means the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania Electors Roll prepared and maintained under section 8 ;

south region means that part of the State comprising the cities of Hobart, Clarence and Glenorchy and the municipal areas of Brighton, Central Highlands, Derwent Valley, Glamorgan-Spring Bay, Huon Valley, Kingborough, Sorell, Southern Midlands and Tasman.