Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act 1997 (Cth)

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act 1997

No. 117, 1997

An Act to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

Contents 1 Short title..................................1 2 Commencement..............................1 3 Schedule(s).................................2

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 3

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act 1997

No. 117, 1997

An Act to amend the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

[Assented to 7 July 1997]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act 1997.

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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 (before the item relating to Catfish Dreaming) Insert:

Bauhinia Downs

All that piece of land being Northern Territory Portion 1203 containing an area of approximately 1449 square kilometres and being more particularly registered as Volume 365 Folio 123 with the Northern Territory Registrar-General, but excluding all of the land within 50 metres from either side of the centre line of the road known as the Borroloola to Roper Bar Road.

Brumby Plains

All that piece of land being Northern Territory Portion 4091 containing an area of approximately 117,000 hectares and being more particularly delineated on Survey Plan S92/164 lodged with the Surveyor-General, Darwin, but excluding all of the land within 50 metres from either side of the centre line of the access road between Northern Territory Portion 2989 and the northernmost boundary of Northern Territory Portion 2929.