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Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Titles (Validation) and Native Title (Effect
of Past Acts) Amendment Bill 1999
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Titles (Validation) and Native Title (Effect of
Past Acts) Act 1995.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Titles (Validation) and Native Title
(Effect of Past Acts) Amendment Act 1999.
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2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives
the Royal Assent.
3. The Act amended
5 The amendments in this Act are to the Titles (Validation) and
Native Title (Effect of Past Acts) Act 1995*.
[* Act No. 16 of 1995.
For subsequent amendments see Act No. 9 of 1999.]
4. Section 12I amended
10 Section 12I(1) is amended by deleting paragraphs (a), (b)
and (c) and "or" after paragraphs (a) and (b) and inserting
instead --
"
(a) the act extinguishes any native title in relation
15 to the land or waters covered by the freehold
estate, Scheduled interest or lease concerned;
and
(b) the extinguishment is taken to have happened
when the act was done.
20 ".
5. Section 12J amended
Section 12J(1) is amended as follows:
(a) by deleting "attributable to the State and the public
work to which the act relates still existed on
25 23 December 1996" and inserting instead --
" and is attributable to the State ";
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(b) in paragraph (a) by deleting "only";
(c) in paragraph (a) by inserting after "establishment)" --
" was or ".
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