Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act 2019

No. 9, 2019

An Act to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 1

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedules 2

Schedule 1—Kakadu 3

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 3

Schedule 2—Urapunga 6

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 6

Schedule 3—Anthony Lagoon 7

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 7

An Act to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, and for related purposes

[Assented to 12 March 2019]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act is the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act 2019.

2 Commencement 1

Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information	Commencement information	Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	12 March 2019
2. Schedule 1	The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.	13 March 2019
3. Schedules 2 and 3	Immediately after the commencement of the provisions covered by table item 2.	13 March 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

2

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Kakadu

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

1 Section 3 (definitions of Alligator Rivers Area (No. 3), Gimbat and Goodparla)

Repeal the definitions.

2 At the end of section 10

Add:

4

For the purposes of this section, any estate or interest in the area of land described in Schedule 1 under the heading “Kakadu” that is held by the Director is taken to be an estate or interest held by the Crown in right of the Commonwealth.

3 Subsection 11(1A)

Repeal the subsection.

4 Paragraph 12(2B)(b)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

b

any land described in Schedule 1 under the heading “Kakadu”;

5 Subsection 12(2C)

Omit “land referred to in subsection (2D)”, substitute “any land described in Schedule 1 under the heading “Uluru””.

6 Subsections 12(2D) and (2E)

Repeal the subsections.

7 Subsections 50(1A) and (1B)

Repeal the subsections.

8 Part 4 of Schedule 1 (after the item relating to Jabiru)

Insert:

KAKADU

All that land in the Northern Territory comprising:

a

the whole of Northern Territory Portion 1760 delineated on Survey Plan S91/227 lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 450 hectares; and

b

the whole of Northern Territory Portion 7456 delineated on Survey Plans S2015/186 (A to H) lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 612,600 hectares; and

c

the whole of Northern Territory Portion 7457 delineated on Survey Plans S2015/187 (A to H) and S2015/187 (J to L) lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 355,200 hectares; and

d

the whole of Northern Territory Portion 7548 delineated on Survey Plan S2015/188 lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 40.95 hectares; and

e

the whole of Northern Territory Portion 1761 delineated on Survey Plan S91/227 lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 4,400 hectares; and

f

the whole of Northern Territory Portion 7459 delineated on Survey Plans S2015/189 (A and B) lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 33.39 hectares; and

g

the whole of Northern Territory Portion 7460 delineated on Survey Plans S2015/189 (A and B) lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 39.40 hectares; and

h

the whole of Northern Territory Portion 7461 delineated on Survey Plan S2015/189B lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 335.8 hectares; and

i

the whole of Northern Territory Portion 7462 delineated on Survey Plan S2015/190 lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 209.1 hectares; and

j

the whole of Northern Territory Portion 895 delineated on Survey Plan A419 lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 12.14 hectares.

9 Schedule 4

Repeal the Schedule.

Urapunga

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

1 Part 4 of Schedule 1 (after the item relating to Upper Daly)

Insert:

URAPUNGA

All that land in the Northern Territory comprising the whole of Lot 281 delineated on Survey Plan S2016/094 lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 73.32 hectares.

Anthony Lagoon

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

1 Part 4 of Schedule 1 (before the item relating to Bauhinia Downs)

Insert:

ANTHONY LAGOON

All that land in the Northern Territory comprising the whole of Northern Territory Portion 5010 delineated on Survey Plan S96/303 lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 603.5 hectares.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

Senate on 6 December 2017

House of Representatives on 19 February 2019]

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