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Interpretation Act 1978
59APublic places etc. on Aboriginal land
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59A Public places etc. on Aboriginal land
(1) Where by or under a law of the Territory a right, privilege, obligation
or liability is expressed or implied to be acquired, accrued or
incurred by reference to a public place, public street, public road,
place of public resort or other place, however described, open to or
used by the public or to which the public has access, whether as of
right or on the payment of a fee or other charge, that reference
includes, and shall be deemed always to have included, any place
which but for the fact that it was on Aboriginal land within the
meaning of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976
of the Commonwealth, would have been included in such a
reference, and even though that Act of the Commonwealth or the
Aboriginal Land Act 1978 limits the persons or classes of persons
who may enter and remain on that Aboriginal land.
(2) For the purposes of a law of the Territory referred to in
subsection (1), the persons who are not precluded by the Aboriginal
Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 of the Commonwealth or
the Aboriginal Land Act 1978 from entering or remaining on
Aboriginal land, or who are on Aboriginal land whether or not they
are entitled by those Acts, or either of them, to enter or remain on
Aboriginal land, are capable of constituting, and shall be deemed
always to have been capable of constituting, a section of the public
in relation to that land.