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to two or more Land Trusts for the benefit of Aboriginals entitled by Aboriginal tradition to the use or occupation of those respective areas of land, whether or not the traditional entitlement is qualified as to place, time, circumstance, purpose or permission; and
          (b) the Minister is satisfied that the areas of land or parts of the areas of land to which each of at least two of those reports respectively relate should be granted to a single Land Trust to be held for the benefit of Aboriginals who are the relevant Aboriginals in relation to each of those areas or each of those parts,

      the Minister shall—
          (c) establish a single Land Trust under section 4 to hold those areas or those parts of those areas for the benefit of Aboriginals who are the relevant Aboriginals in relation to the land proposed to be held by that Land Trust;
          (d) where land in respect of which a Land Trust has been or is proposed to be established in accordance with paragraph (c) is, or includes, alienated Crown land, ensure that the estates and interests in that alienated Crown land of persons (other than the Crown) are acquired by the Crown by surrender or otherwise; and
          (e) after any acquisition referred to in paragraph (d) has been effected in relation to land and a Land Trust has been established in accordance with paragraph (c) in respect of that land, recommend to the Governor-General that a grant of an estate in fee simple in that land be made to that Land Trust.
     "(1af) Where land that is contiguous to Aboriginal land would have been the subject of a recommendation by the Minister under sub-section (1), (1ab), (1ad) or (1ae) but for the existence on that land of—
          (a) a road over which the public has a right of way; or
          (b) a stock route (other than a stock route to which sub-section 50 (2e) applies),
      then—
          (c) in a case where paragraph (a) applies—if there no longer exists on that land a road over which the public has a right of way; or
          (d) in a case where paragraph (b) applies—if the land ceases to be a stock route,
     the Minister may, on the application of the Land Council for the area in which the land is situated, recommend to the Governor-General that a grant of an estate in fee simple in that land or part of that land be made to the Land Trust that holds, or to one of the Land Trusts that hold, contiguous Aboriginal land.";
     (b) by inserting after sub-section (1a) the following sub-section:
     "(1b) Where an amalgamation in respect of which the Minister has taken action