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Lands Acquisition Act 1978
42CComments on acquisition
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42C Comments on acquisition
(1) Where a person is served with a notice of proposal under
section 42A, the person may:
(a) if the person was served under section 42A(1)(b) – within
2 months after the date of the notice of proposal or within the
further period allowed in writing by the Minister; or
(b) in any other case – within 2 months after the date of
publication of the notice of acquisition or within the further
period allowed in writing by the Minister,
lodge with the Minister comments on the acquisition.
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(2) Where:
(a) the proposal is for the acquisition of native title rights and
interests (if any); and
(b) there are no registered native title claimants or registered
native title bodies corporate in relation to any of the land the
subject of the proposal,
the representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body or bodies
in relation to that land who were served with a copy of the notice of
proposal under section 42A(1)(c) may, within 2 months after the
date of the notice of proposal or such further period as the Minister
in writing allows, lodge in writing with the Minister comments on the
(3) Subject to section 89A, compensation is payable to a person whose
interest in land is acquired under this Part whether or not comments
on the acquisition were lodged under subsection (1) or (2).