Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act 1997 (Cth)

Aboriginal Land Rights ( Northern Territory ) Amendment Act 1997

No. 117, 1997

An Act to amend the AboriginalLand Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

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Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act 1997

No. 117, 1997

An Act to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

[Assented to 7 July 1997]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act 1997.

2Commencement

This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the AboriginalLand Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

1. 1

   Part 4 of Schedule 1 (before the item relating to Catfish Dreaming)

   Insert:

   Bauhinia Downs

   All that piece of land being Northern Territory Portion 1203 containing an area of approximately 1449 square kilometres and being more particularly registered as Volume 365 Folio 123 with the Northern Territory Registrar-General, but excluding all of the land within 50 metres from either side of the centre line of the road known as the Borroloola to Roper Bar Road.

   Brumby Plains

   All that piece of land being Northern Territory Portion 4091 containing an area of approximately 117,000 hectares and being more particularly delineated on Survey Plan S92/164 lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, but excluding all of the land within 50 metres from either side of the centre line of the access road between Northern Territory Portion 2989 and the northernmost boundary of Northern Territory Portion 2929.

2

At the end of Part 4 of Schedule 1

Add:

Western Desert (North) Locality

All that piece of land being Northern Territory Portion 4198 containing an area of approximately 239,200 hectares and being more particularly delineated on Survey Plan S96/175 lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

Senate on 26 June 1996

House of Representatives on 27 June 1997]

(76/96)