LANDS ACQUISITION AMENDMENT ACT 1977

No. 105 of 1977

An Act providing for the extension of the Lands Acquisition Act 1955 to the external Territories and for purposes connected therewith.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Lands Acquisition Amendment Act 1977.

(2) The Lands Acquisition Act 1955 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. After section 5 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Part I:

Extension to external Territories

“5a. This Act extends to every external Territory.”.

Service of notices, &c.

4. Section 66 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1) “A claim” and substituting “Subject to sub-section (11), a claim”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:

“(1a) Where a claim, notice or other document required or permitted by this Act to be served on or given to the Minister relates to land in an external Territory, the claim, notice or other document may be so served or given by delivering it to an officer employed in—

(a) the office of the Administrator of that Territory; or

(b) if there is no Administrator in respect of that Territory—such office in that Territory as is prescribed for the purposes of this sub-section.”.