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
[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 |
| 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—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.
Schedule 2—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.
Schedule 3—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]