Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 - SECT 60AA

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a body corporate is or becomes registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 ; and

  (b)   all of the members of the body corporate are members of the Meriam people (see subsection   (2)); and

  (c)   one of the objects of the body corporate is to become a registered native title body corporate in relation to native title held by the Meriam people; and

  (d)   a member of the Meriam people applies to the Federal Court for a determination under this section; and

  (e)   the Court is satisfied that the applicant represents the Meriam people;

then:

  (f)   this Act applies as if the body corporate were a prescribed body corporate nominated under subsection   56(2) or 57(2) in relation to those native title holders; and

  (g)   the Court may make a determination under section   56 or 57, in relation to that native title, as if the Court were doing so at the same time as making an approved determination of native title as mentioned in section   55; and

  (h)   if the Court makes such a determination under section   56 or 57--the Native Title Registrar must enter the name and address of the body corporate on the National Native Title Register; and

  (i)   while those details are on the Register, the body corporate is taken to be a registered native title body corporate for the purposes of this Act.

  (2)   In this section:

"Meriam people" means the people who were described by the High Court in its declaration in Mabo v Queensland [No.   2] (1992) 175 CLR 1 as the Meriam people.