Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Township) Regulations 2017

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 15 June 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Nigel Scullion

Minister for Indigenous Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Regulations 2007

1  Name

  This instrument is the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Township) Regulations 2017.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

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

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Regulations 2007

1  After regulation 5

Insert:

5AA  Additional township area vested in the Tiwi Aboriginal Land Trust (Act s 3AB(3))

 (1) For the purposes of subsection 3AB(3) of the Act, the area of land mentioned in subregulation (2) is prescribed in relation to the Tiwi Aboriginal Land Trust.

Note: The area is known as Pirlangimpi.

 (2) The land is the parcel of land on Melville Island in the Northern Territory with an area of 1,075 hectares, more or less, being Northern Territory Portion 7363(A), delineated on Survey Plan S2014/211 lodged with the Northern Territory Surveyor‑General in Darwin.