Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self-management) Act 1978
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In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
Aboriginal means a person who is a member of the Aboriginal race of Australia.
Aboriginal Community means a community for Aborigines established, or deemed to have been established, under or by the Aborigines Act.
Aboriginal Community to which this Act applies means an Aboriginal Community in respect of which a declaration under subsection 5(3) is in force.
Aboriginal Reserve means any land that is a reserve for the purposes of the Aborigines Act.
Aboriginal Reserve to which this Act applies means an Aboriginal Reserve in respect of which a declaration under subsection 5(1) is in force.
Aborigines Act means:
(a) the Aborigines Act 1971 of Queensland or that Act as amended and in force at any relevant time; or
(b) if that Act ceases to be in force and another Act is substituted for that Act—the substituted Act or that Act as amended and in force at any relevant time;
and includes: (c) any regulations and other instruments (including by‑laws) as in force at any relevant time under or by virtue of the Aborigines Act 1971 or that Act as amended and in force at any relevant time, or under or by virtue of the substituted Act or that Act as amended and in force at any relevant time; and (d) any instruments (including any by‑laws) as in force at any relevant time under or by virtue of those regulations as in force at any relevant time.
Community means an Aboriginal Community or an Islander Community.
Community to which this Act applies means an Aboriginal Community to which this Act applies or an Islander Community to which this Act applies.
Council, in relation to a Reserve or Community, means:
(a) except in a case where paragraph (b) applies—the Aboriginal Council for the Reserve or Community or the Island Council for the Reserve or Community, as the case may be, established or continued in existence under or by the Aborigines Act or the Torres Strait Islanders Act, as the case may be; or
(b) if a declaration under subsection 6(1) is in force at the relevant time in relation to the Reserve or Community—the body specified in that declaration.
Islander means a person who is a member of the race to which Torres Strait Islanders belong.