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Lands Acquisition Act 1978
28ACertain land not to be acquired
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28A Certain land not to be acquired
(1) The Minister may not compulsorily acquire any prescribed land or
an interest in prescribed land except:
(a) for the purpose of the provision of essential services and
facilities being power (including gas), water, sewerage, road or
communication services or facilities to or across the
prescribed land, or access to any of them; or
(b) where the prescribed land is held subject to the reservation
that the Territory can acquire the part or interest for the
purpose for which it is proposed to be acquired.
(2) In subsection (1) prescribed land means land granted to, and held
by, an incorporated association within the meaning of the
Associations Act 2003 or an Aboriginal association within the
meaning of the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)
Act 2006 (Cth) as a community living area for Aboriginals, having
been excised (by agreement or otherwise) for that purpose from a
pastoral lease within the meaning of the Pastoral Land Act 1992 or
a Crown lease of another kind.
(3) In any dispute under this section, the Minister shall refer the matter
in dispute to the Community Living Areas Tribunal continued in
existence by section 93 of the Pastoral Land Act 1992 and the
provisions of Part 8 of that Act, with the necessary changes, shall
apply as if the matter in dispute were an application under that Part
and the Minister and the association were parties to the application.
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(4) Nothing in subsection (1) empowers the Minister to compulsorily
acquire the fee simple of any part of the prescribed land other than
the interests referred to in subsection (1)(b).