It provides some security to traditional inhabitants that their traditional fishing activities will not be interfered in without appropriate consultation and consideration of alternative means of achieving the same ends. Traditional fishing is subsistence activity in a broad sense, excluding commercial and similar activities. Report, para 949-50, 1002. Clauses 12 and 13 - Amendment of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 1. Clause 13 amends the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 so as to recognise traditional marriage for the purposes of spouse rebates under the Act.
Recognition applies only to income tax years commencing after the legislation comes into force.
Report, para 322. Clause 15 and 16 - Amendment of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 1. Clause 16 amends the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 by inserting a proposed s 37A in the Act. Based on an anology with s 37, which protects religious beliefs and observances, the purpose of cl 37A is to allow recognition of the separate domains of knowledge and ceremonial activity of Aboriginal men and women under Aboriginal customary laws. The existence of these separate domains may give rise to situations in which, unless an exemption were obtained from the Human Rights Commission, the Act would be contravened.