1Native Title (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund) Regulations

Statutory Rules 1994 No. 2391

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Native Title (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund) Regulations

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under section 4 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, make the following Regulations under the Native Title Act 1993.

Dated 27 June 1994.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT TICKNER

Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs

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Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Native Title (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund) Regulations.

Commencement

2. These Regulations commence on 1 July 1994.

Interpretation

3. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:

“fund” means the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund established by subsection 201 (1) of the Native Title Act 1993.

Fund is a trust account

4. The fund is a Trust Account for the purposes of section 62A of the Audit Act 1901.

Appropriated money to be paid into the fund

5. Money that is:

(a) appropriated by an Act for the purchase and management of land for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders for social, cultural or economic purposes; and

(b) expressed by that Act to be for payment to the relevant trust account;

is to be paid into the fund.

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NOTE

Note: 1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 1 July 1994.