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to the matters set out in that report and to any other matters that the Minister considers relevant, make a determination in relation to the amount to which the report relates, being a determination that could have been made by the Land Council, and, upon the Minister's so doing—
          (a) the determination shall have effect, for all purposes of this Act, as if it were a determination that had been duly made by the Land Council; and
          (b) the Land Council shall cause the amount to which the determination relates to be disbursed forthwith in accordance with the determination.
     "(7) Where a Land Council determines that an amount of money is an amount that is required to be distributed under sub-section (1), the Land Council shall, as soon as practicable after it has so determined, hold that amount in trust for the bodies to which that amount is eventually to be paid in accordance with this section until that amount is so paid.
     "(8) Each amount of money that is paid to a Land Council under sub-section (2), (3) or (4) shall be held in trust for the

      bodies to which or persons to whom that amount is eventually to be paid in accordance with this section until that amount is so paid.
     "(9) Where an Aboriginal Council, an incorporated Aboriginal community or group or the traditional Aboriginal owners of an area of Aboriginal land to which or to whom an amount of money would, but for this sub-section, be required to be paid by a Land Council in accordance with sub-section (1), (2), (3), (4) or (6) requests or request the Land Council, in writing, before that amount is so paid, to hold, or to continue to hold, that amount in trust for it or for them, the Land Council shall, notwithstanding that subsection, hold, or continue to hold, that amount in trust accordingly until that request is revoked.
     "(10) While an amount of money referred to in sub-section (7), (8) or (9) is held in trust in accordance with that sub-section, the Land Council shall cause that amount to be invested in accordance with section 62b of the Audit Act 1901.
     "(11) Where a Land Council pays out an amount of money that it has held in trust and invested in accordance with this section, the Land Council shall, so far as is practicable, pay to the body or person to whom that amount is paid the interest received by the Land Council in respect of the investment of that amount.
     "(12) Unless, before the date of commencement of this sub-section, an Aboriginal community or group has been paid an amount under this section, that Aboriginal community or