Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00224:section:24gd:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00224
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 24GD (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 151639–153062

rights to take water from an area near that covered by an agricultural lease or pastoral lease, if the water is for use in carrying on primary production activities in the area covered by the lease.
Note: For the renewal, re‑grant, re‑making or extension of certain acts covered by this section, see Subdivision I.

Validation of act
 (2) If this section applies to a future act, the act is valid.

Non‑extinguishment principle
 (3) The non‑extinguishment principle applies to the act.

Compensation
 (4) The native title holders concerned are entitled to compensation for the act in accordance with Division 5.

Who pays compensation
 (5) The compensation is payable by:
 (a) if the act is attributable to the Commonwealth—the Crown in right of the Commonwealth; or
 (b) if the act is attributable to a State or Territory—the Crown in right of the State or Territory.

Notification
 (6) Before the act is done, the person proposing to do the act must:
 (a) notify, in the way determined, by legislative instrument, by the Commonwealth Minister, any representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander bodies, registered native title bodies corporate and registered native title claimants in relation to the land or waters that will be affected by the act that the act, or acts of that class, are to be done in relation to the land or waters concerned; and
 (b) give them an opportunity to comment on the act or class of acts.