Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00224:section:24md:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00224
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 24MD (pt 4/5)
Character Range: 197724–200423

corporate), in relation to the land or waters; and
 (iii) any representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body in relation to the land or waters; and
 (iv) the Registrar;
  that the act is to be done; and
 (d) any claimant or body corporate may object, within 2 months after the notification, to the doing of the act so far as it affects their registered native title rights and interests; and
 (e) either:
 (i) in a paragraph (a) case—the Commonwealth, the State or the Territory; or
 (ii) in a paragraph (b) case—the person who requested or applied for the doing of the act;
  must consult any claimants, and bodies corporate, who object, about ways of minimising the act's impact on registered native title rights and interests in relation to the land or waters, and, if relevant, any access to the land or waters or the way in which any thing authorised by the act might be done; and
 (f) if:
 (i) a claimant or body corporate objects, as mentioned in paragraph (d), to the doing of the act; and
 (ii) 8 months after the notification mentioned in paragraph (c), the objection has not been withdrawn;
  the Commonwealth, the State or the Territory must ensure that the objection is heard by an independent person or body; and
 (g) if the independent person or body hearing any objection as mentioned in paragraph (f) makes a determination upholding the objection, or that contains conditions about the doing of the act that relate to registered native title rights and interests, the determination must be complied with unless:
 (i) the Minister of the Commonwealth, the State or the Territory responsible for indigenous affairs is consulted; and
 (ii) the consultation is taken into account; and
 (iii) it is in the interests of the Commonwealth, the State or the Territory not to comply with the determination.

Meaning of determination
 (6C) In paragraph (6B)(g):
determination includes recommendation.
in the interests of the Commonwealth, the State or the Territory includes:
 (a) for the social or economic benefit of the Commonwealth, the State or the Territory (including of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders); and
 (b) in the interests of the relevant region or locality in the Commonwealth, the State or the Territory.

Satisfying the right to be notified
 (7) If:
 (a) because of subsection (6A) or any law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory, the native title holders have a procedural right that requires another person to notify them of the act; and
 (b) there is no registered native title body corporate, or there are no registered native title bodies corporate, in relation to the whole of the land or waters in the area concerned;
then one way in which