Native Title (Recognition as Representative Body–Central Land Council) Instrument 2018

I, Nigel Scullion, Minister for Indigenous Affairs, make the following instrument.

Dated 21 June 2018

NIGEL SCULLION

Minister for Indigenous Affairs

1 Name

  This instrument is the Native Title (Recognition as Representative Body–Central Land Council) Instrument 2018.

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Note:           This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 203AD(1) of the Native Title Act 1993.

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Native Title Act 1993.

Representative Body means a representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body recognised under section 203AD of the Act.

Central Land Council means the Central Land Council as established under section 21 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976.

5 Recognised Representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Body

  For subsection 203AD(1) of the Act, the Central Land Council is the recognised Representative Body for the area described in Schedule 1.

6 Period of recognition

  For subsection 203AD(2) of the Act, this recognition as a Representative Body takes effect on 1 July 2018 and ceases to have effect on 30 June 2024.

7 Revocation of the previous instrument of recognition

  The Native Title (Recognition as Representative Body–Central Land Council) Instrument 2016 instrument is revoked with effect on the date of the commencement of this Instrument.

Schedule 1 - Description of area (Southern Northern Territory)

 The Southern Northern Territory area is the area of land bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of the Northern Territory border and the South Australia and Western Australia State borders, and then proceeding north along the western boundary of the Northern Territory border to its intersection with the Central Land Council boundary line, vide Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, published in the Australian Government Gazette No.  S6, 26 January 1977, as amended by notice published in the Australian Government Gazette No.  G34, 30 August 1977, then generally south-easterly along the aforesaid boundary to its intersection with the eastern boundary of the Northern Territory border, then south along the eastern border of the Northern Territory to the intersection of the Northern Territory border and the South Australia and Queensland State borders, and then generally west along the southern boundary of the Northern Territory to the point where the line began.

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Southern Northern Territory