Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00224:section:23ja
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00224
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 23JA
Character Range: 77443–78352

23JA  Attribution of certain acts
  If:
 (a) a previous exclusive possession act or a previous non‑exclusive possession act took place before the establishment of a particular State, the Jervis Bay Territory, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory; and
 (b) the act affected land or waters that, when this section commences, form part of the State or Territory;
then, for the purposes of this Division, the act is taken to be attributable to:
 (c) the State; or
 (d) if the Territory is the Jervis Bay Territory—the Commonwealth; or
 (e) if the Territory is the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory—that Territory.
Note: The meaning given to the expression attributable by section 239 will apply for the purposes of this Division to all other previous exclusive and non‑exclusive possession acts.

Division 3—Future acts etc. and native title

Subdivision A—Preliminary