Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIVE TITLE AMENDMENT ACT 1998 - NOTES

Act No. 97 of 1998 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 1 September 2007

[This Act was amended by Act No. 63 of 2002; No. 125 of 2007]

Amendment from Act No. 63 of 2002

[Schedule 2 (item 16) amended item 43 of Schedule 2

Schedule 2 (item 16) commenced on 30 September 1998]

Amendments from Act No. 125 of 2007

[Schedule 4 (items 34 and 35) amended subclause 14(3) of Schedule 5
Schedule 4 (item 36) repealed and substituted note to clause 26 of Schedule 5

Schedule 4 (items 34-36) commenced on 1 September 2007]

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing,
Attorney-General's Department, Canberra

Contents

1 Short title..................................1

2 Commencement..............................1

3 Schedule(s).................................1

Schedule 1--Amendments relating to acts affecting native title etc. 3

Native Title Act 1993 3

Schedule 2--Amendments relating to applications, registration of claims etc.              158

Part 1--Native Title Act 1993 158

Part 2--Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 234

Schedule 3--Amendments relating to representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander bodies              236

Part 1--Initial amendments 236

Part 2--Later amendments 253

Schedule 4--Addition of Schedule 291

Native Title Act 1993 291

Schedule 5--Application and transitional 344

Part 1--Contents of this Schedule 344

Part 2--Application of future act amendments 345

Part 3--Application of amendments relating to section 61 applications: proceedings relating to determinations              348

Part 4--Application of amendments relating to section 61 applications: registration of claims              352

Part 5--Various application and transitional provisions 357

Part 6--Validation of certain acts 361

Part 7--Compensation etc. 362

Part 8--Regulations 363

Part 9--Interpretation 364

[Assented to 27 July 1998]

The Parliament of Australia enacts: