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3  Objects Main objects   The main objects of this Act are:  (a) to provide for the recognition and protection of native title; and  (b) to establish ways in which future dealings affecting native title may proceed and to set standards for those dealings; and  (c) to establish a mechanism for determining claims to native title; and  (d) to provide for, or permit, the validation of past acts, and intermediate period acts, invalidated because of the existence of native title.