Northern Territory (Commonwealth Lands) Act 1980

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Northern Territory (Commonwealth Lands) Act 1980.

2 Commencement

This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3 Notification of acquisition of certain interests in land

(1) A notice to which this section applies shall, for all purposes, be taken to be, and to have always been, a notice duly published under and in accordance with Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978, and, subject to this section, subsection 70(4) of that Act shall, for all purposes, be taken to have, and to have always had, effect, to the fullest extent to which it is capable of having effect, in relation to an interest in land that is an interest specified in a notice to which this section applies.section 70 of the

(2) Any land in which an interest was, before 1 July 1978, vested in the Director of National Parks and Wildlife by the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975 shall be deemed to be, and to have always been, excluded from lands described in a notice to which this section applies.

(3) This section applies to each notice published in the Gazette on 29 June 1978 and headed as follows:

‘COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Northern Territory (Self-government) Act 1978

NOTICE OF ACQUISITION OF INTEREST IN LAND BY THE COMMONWEALTH’