Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act (No. 2) 2000

No. 27, 2000

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

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act (No. 2) 2000

No. 27, 2000

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

[Assented to 3 April 2000]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act (No. 2) 2000.

2 Commencement

This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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—Amendment of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

1 Part 4 of Schedule 1 (after the item relating to KANTURRPA—KANTTAJI)

Insert:

ROCKHAMPTON DOWNS

Three parcels of land in the Northern Territory together containing an area of 8,094.4 hectares more or less comprising:

Firstly:

all that parcel of land containing an area of 1,252 hectares more or less, being all of Northern Territory Portion 4801.

Secondly:

all that parcel of land containing an area of 585.4 hectares more or less, being all of Northern Territory Portion 5798.

Thirdly:

all that parcel of land containing an area of 6,257 hectares more or less, being all of Northern Territory Portion 4802.

The 3 parcels together being more particularly delineated on Survey Plans S.95/36A to S.95/36C lodged with the Surveyor General, Darwin.

(237/99)

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 8 December 1999

Senate on 13 March 2000]