134AService of documents on native title holders

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.

(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).

(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—

(a) any representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander bodies for an area that includes the land concerned, and

(b) any registered native title claimants in relation to the land concerned.

(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.

s 134A: Ins 1994 No 45, Sch 1. Am 2000 No 90, Schs 3.2 [3], 4 [24].