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Native Title (Right to Negotiate - Alternative Provisions) (Northern Territory Lands Acquisition Laws) Determination 1999

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This determination certifies parts of the Northern Territory’s Lands Acquisition Act and Lands and Mining Tribunal Act 1998 as an approved local alternative to the Commonwealth “right to negotiate” rules under the Native Title Act. That lets the NT use its own land‑acquisition, compensation and tribunal processes instead of the federal procedure when native title is affected—impacting native title holders, the NT government, and developers/mining companies.

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Native Title (Right to Negotiate - Alternative Provisions) (Northern Territory Lands Acquisition Laws) Determination 1999

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Native Title (Right to Negotiate — Alternative Provisions) (Northern Territory Lands Acquisition Laws) Determination 19991

I, DARYL ROBERT WILLIAMS, Attorney-General, acting under paragraph 43A (1) (b) of the Native Title Act 1993 (the Act), determine that:

(a) the provisions of the laws of the Northern Territory mentioned in Schedule 1, providing for alternative provisions to those contained in Subdivision P of Division 3 of Part 2 of the Act, comply with subsections 43A (4) and (6) of the Act; and

(b) the requirements of subsection 43A (7) of the Act are complied with for the whole of the land or waters to which the alternative provisions relate.

Dated 27 April 1999.

DARYL WILLIAMS

Attorney-General

Schedule 1 Laws providing alternative provisions to Subdivision P of Division 3 of Part 2 of the Act

Lands Acquisition Act

Sections 5 and 5A, Part IV (except section 39), Part V (except section 44), Part VII, Divisions 1 and 3 of Part VIII, Part IX, subsection 90 (3).

Lands and Mining Tribunal Act 1998

Part 2, sections 11, 12, 13, 14 and 17, Divisions 2 and 3 of Part 3, Part 4, sections 36 and 37.

Note

Note: 1. This determination commences on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s 48 and Native Title Act 1993, s 214.

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1 Native Title (Right to Negotiate - Alternative Provisions) (Northern Territory Lands Acquisition Laws) Determination 1999