Victorian Numbered Acts

ADVANCING THE TREATY PROCESS WITH ABORIGINAL VICTORIANS ACT 2018 (NO. 28 OF 2018) - SECT 1

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to advance the process of treaty making between traditional owners and Aboriginal Victorians, and the State; and

        (b)     to provide for a mechanism for the State to recognise the Aboriginal Representative Body as the sole representative of traditional owners and Aboriginal Victorians for the purpose of establishing elements necessary to support future treaty negotiations; and

        (c)     to enshrine the guiding principles for the treaty process; and

        (d)     to require the Aboriginal Representative Body and the State to work together to establish elements necessary to support future treaty negotiations.