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Declaration of Aboriginal Land (11/10/1995)

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The Minister, using subsection 9A(1) of the Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) Act 1986, declares the Jervis Bay National Park and the Jervis Bay Botanic Gardens to be Aboriginal Land and grants them to the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council, subject to a lease to the Director of National Parks and Wildlife agreed by the parties. This changes legal ownership and governance: the Council becomes owner, the Director retains management under the lease, and both have new statutory and contractual obligations.

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Declaration of Aboriginal Land (11/10/1995)

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Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) Act 1986

Declaration of Aboriginal Land

I, ROBERT EDWARD TICKNER, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, under subsection 9A (1) of the Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) Act 1986 and being satisfied that:

(a) the land within the Jervis Bay National Park is of significance to the Aboriginals who are members of the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council; and

(b) the land within the Jervis Bay Botanic Gardens is of significance to those Aboriginals; and

(d) the Council and the Director of National Parks and Wildlife have entered an agreement under which the Council agrees to grant to the Director a lease of the land referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b);

declare that all the land within the Jervis Bay National Park and all the land within the Jervis Bay Botanic Gardens is Aboriginal Land.

Dated 11th October 1995.

R E Tickner

Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs

[NOTE: The Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) Act 1986 identifies the Jervis Bay National Park and the Jervis Bay Botanic Gardens.]

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