Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 - SECT 188

Public interest test

  (1)   Section   187 does not apply to a part of the Register if the Registrar is satisfied that it would not be in the public interest for information in that part of the Register to be available to the public.

Note:   Such information must not be made available to the public: see subsection   98A(2).

Concerns of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders

  (3)   In determining whether it would or would not be in the public interest for information in that part of the Register to be available to the public, the Registrar must have due regard to the cultural and customary concerns of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders.