Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsIndigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board to prepare regional strategies
(1) The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board must prepare, and revise from time to time, strategies to be known as regional indigenous land and sea strategies.
Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board to determine regional areas
(2) For the purposes of this section, the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board must, by writing, determine the boundaries of areas to be known as regional areas.
Regional areas
(3) A regional indigenous land and sea strategy must relate to a specified regional area.
Contents of regional strategy
(4) A regional strategy relating to a regional area must cover, but is not limited to, the following matters:
(a) the acquisition of interests in land, and water - related rights, in the regional area for the purpose of making grants of those interests and rights to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander corporations;
(b) management issues relating to indigenous - held land and indigenous waters in the regional area;
(c) environmental management issues relating to indigenous - held land and indigenous waters in the regional area.
Note: It is not intended that a strategy will contain commercially sensitive information.
Consultation on regional strategies
(5) In performing functions under this section in connection with a regional area, the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board may consult any persons or bodies the Board considers appropriate.
Period to which regional strategy is to relate
(6) A regional indigenous land and sea strategy is to relate to a period of at least 3 years and not more than 5 years.
Review
(7) The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board must review each regional indigenous land and sea strategy regularly.
Copy to Minister on request
(8) The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation Board must give a copy of a regional strategy to the Minister on request.