Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03484:body:0:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03484
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 0–3119

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act (No. 3) 1987

No. 75 of 1987

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section
  1. Short title etc.
  2. Commencement
  3. Interpretation
  4. Application of money of Land Council
  5. Repeal of Part IV and substitution of new Part:

PART IV—MINING

        40. Grants of exploration licences
        41. Application for consent to exploration licences
        42. Response of Land Council and Minister to application
        43. National interest cases
        44. Determination of conditions of exploration licences
        44a. Terms and conditions of exploration licences
        45. Mining interest not to be granted in certain circumstances
            46. Terms and conditions to which grant of mining interest subject
        47. Vitiation of consent
        48. No further applications within certain periods
            48a. Land Council may enter agreement concerning exploration or mining of land subject to claim
        48b. Variation of terms and conditions
        48c. Application of Acts authorising mining on Aboriginal land
        48d. Payments in respect of mining under Acts
        48e. Arbitration on required agreement
        48f. Appointment as Mining Commissioner
        48g. Proclamations to be laid before Parliament
        48h. Agreements for entry on Aboriginal land
        48j. Offence in connection with mining interest
  6. Consents of traditional Aboriginal owners
  7. Transitional
  8. Savings

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act (No. 3) 1987

No. 75 of 1987

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

[Assented to 5 June 1987]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title etc.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Act (No. 3) 1987.
(2) The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 19761 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Interpretation
3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended:
     (a) by inserting after the definition of "exploration licence" in subsection (1) the following definition:
         " 'exploration retention lease' means an exploration retention lease granted under a law of the Northern Territory relating to mining for minerals and includes a retention licence granted under the Petroleum Act 1984 of the Northern Territory as amended from time to time;";
     (b) by inserting after the definition of "Incorporated Aboriginal Association" in subsection (1) the following definition:
         " 'intending miner', in respect of Aboriginal land, means a person:
            (a) who makes application, under a law of the Northern Territory relating to mining for minerals, for the grant of a mining interest in respect of that land; and
            (b) who, on the day on which the person lodges that application:
               (i) holds an exploration