Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 - SECT 24FC

    An area is subject to section   24FA protection at a particular time if:

  (a)   before that time, a non - claimant application, or a corresponding application for an approved determination of native title under a law of a State or Territory, has been made; and

  (b)   the application is not covered by paragraph   24FB(a); and

  (c)   the area is the whole or a part of the area covered by the application; and

  (d)   the period specified in the notice given under section   66, or under a corresponding provision of the law of the State or Territory, has ended; and

  (e)   either:

  (i)   at the end of that period, there is no relevant native title claim (see section   24FE) covering the area; or

  (ii)   after the end of that period, but before the particular time, all entries that relate to a relevant native title claim that covered the area are removed from the Register of Native Title Claims or cease to cover the area; and

  (f)   the application, in so far as it relates to that area, has not been withdrawn, dismissed or otherwise finalised; and

  (g)   there is no entry on the National Native Title Register, included under paragraph   193(1)(a) or (b), specifying that native title exists in relation to the area.