NTIn ForceAct
Lands Acquisition Act 1978
59Compensation for acquired land
Start here
Get a plain-English read of 59
Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Lands Acquisition Act 1978.
59 Compensation for acquired land
(1) Subject to section 63, the interest of any person in land acquired
under Division 1 of Part V is, at the date of acquisition, converted
into a claim for compensation against the Territory.
(1A) A person who has a claim for compensation under subsection (1)
may lodge that claim under section 52(1).
(2) In the absence of agreement, compensation that may be payable to
a native title holder or a person who asserts to have had a native
title right or interest (including a person who held or asserts to have
members any compensation paid would be distributed but not
including a registered native title body corporate on whom a copy of
a notice of acquisition under section 49(1A)(a)(ii) has been served)
is not determinable by the Tribunal until an approved determination
of native title to the effect of any of the following has been made:
of or the reasons for the determination that native title did exist
immediately before the acquisition and was held by the
Lands Acquisition Act 1978 42
section 59(2)(b) or (c) rather than the kind referred to in section 59(2)(d).