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Petroleum (Onshore) Act 1991
134AService of documents on native title holders
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#### 134A Service of documents on native title holders
134A Service of documents on native title holders
> > (1) If a document is authorised or required under this Act to be served on a landholder who is a native title holder, service of the document is taken to be effected in accordance with section 134 if the document is served on a registered native title body corporate in relation to the land concerned.
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> > (2) If no approved determination of native title (within the meaning of the Commonwealth Native Title Act) exists in relation to the land concerned, a document authorised or required under this Act to be served on a landholder cannot, for the purposes of serving it on a landholder who is a native title holder who cannot be identified, be served in the manner prescribed by section 134 (2).
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> > (3) Such a document may, however, be served on a landholder referred to in subsection (2) by serving it, in a manner authorised by section 134 (1) and (3)–(5), on—
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> > > (a) any representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander bodies for an area that includes the land concerned, and
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> > > (b) any registered native title claimants in relation to the land concerned.
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> > (4) In this section, registered native title body corporate and registered native title claimant have the same meanings as in the Commonwealth Native Title Act.
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> **s 134A:** Ins 1994 No 45, Sch 1. Am 2000 No 90, Schs 3.2 \[3\], 4 \[24\].