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(iii) the Registrar-General or other officer shall, with respect to the first deed of grant in relation to the land, take all necessary action to rectify the register kept under the law of the Northern Territory relating to the transfer of land having regard to the operation of sub-section (5) in relation to the first deed of grant.
(7) Where the second deed of grant in relation to land is delivered by the Governor-General to the Land Council concerned in accordance with section 12 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, then, on that delivery, the first deed of grant in relation to the land shall, for all purposes (other than the purposes of this section), be deemed never to have been executed.
(8) For the purposes of the application of sub-section 12 (3a) and sections 12aa and 12ab of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 in relation to the second deed of grant in relation to land, a reference in those provisions to the time of execution of a deed of grant shall be read as a reference to the time of execution of the first deed of grant in relation to the land.
(9) Subject to this section, the first deed of grant in relation to land continues in force after the commencement of this section notwithstanding the amendment made by section 3.
(10) In this section, a reference to a delivery of a deed by a person shall be read as including a reference to a delivery of the deed by the duly authorized agent of the person.

Validation of certain agreements
11. Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, there is in force an agreement under section 43 or 44 of the Principal Act that includes provisions regulating or authorizing, or purporting to regulate or authorize, the entry of persons on Aboriginal land—
    (a) those provisions shall be deemed to be, and always to have been, as validly entered into as if they had been entered into by virtue of section 46a of the Principal Act, as amended by this Act; and
    (b) that section applies, and shall be deemed always to have applied, to those provisions as if they had been entered into by virtue of that section.