Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Scheduling) Act 2024

No. 95, 2024

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

Contents

1 Short title 2

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedules 2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 3

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Scheduling) Act 2024

No. 95, 2024

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

[Assented to 29 November 2024]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title

This Act is the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Scheduling) Act 2024.
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. The whole of this Act The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent. 30 November 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Amendments

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

 1 Part 4 of Schedule 1 (before the item relating to Wave Hill Locality)

Insert:

WAKAYA ALYAWARRE

All that land in the Northern Territory comprising the whole of Northern Territory Portions 8009 and 8383 delineated on Survey Plans S2022/073A and S2022/073B lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 484,000 hectares.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

Senate on 15 August 2024

House of Representatives on 27 November 2024]

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