Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Scheduling) Act 2024

No. 95, 2024

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

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Scheduling) Act 2024

No. 95, 2024

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

[Assented to 29 November 2024]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act is the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Scheduling) Act 2024.

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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

1  Part 4 of Schedule 1 (before the item relating to Wave Hill Locality)

Insert:

WAKAYA ALYAWARRE

All that land in the Northern Territory comprising the whole of Northern Territory Portions 8009 and 8383 delineated on Survey Plans S2022/073A and S2022/073B lodged with the Surveyor‑General, Darwin, and containing an area of approximately 484,000 hectares.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

Senate on 15 August 2024

House of Representatives on 27 November 2024]