Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 21 of 1978 - SECT 7

7. Section 12 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section
(2) the following sub-sections:

''(2A) Where, immediately before a deed of grant under this section that
relates to land in the Alligator Rivers Area (No. 3) takes effect, the
Director held an estate or interest in that land, that estate or interest
shall, on the deed of grant taking effect, cease to exist.

''(2B) The delivery of a deed of grant under this section in respect of-

   (a)  any land described in Schedule 1 under the heading of 'Alligator
        Rivers (No. 1)' or 'Alligator Rivers (No. 2)'; or

   (b)  any land in the Alligator Rivers Area (No. 3), not being land
        constituting, or forming part of, the land described in Schedule 2
        known as the Ranger Project Area, is subject to the condition that the
        Land Council in the area of which the land is situated shall enter
        into an agreement with the Director under which the Land Council
        agrees to direct the Land Trust concerned to grant a lease of the
        land, or such part of the land as the Director specifies, to the
        Director, being a lease the terms and conditions of which are set out
        in the agreement, so as to enable the Director to hold the land for
        the purposes of the National Parks and Wildlife  Conservation Act 1975
        .''.