Commencement
This ILUA was registered with the Register of Indigenous Land Use Agreements on 24 November 2014.
The Extract does not provide a specific start or end date for the Agreement.
The ILUA commence on the Commencement Date, being 16 September 2014. Subject to Clauses 9(i) and 17 the ILUA will operate for the life of the project.
Native Title Provisions
Consent
The parties to the ILUA agree and consent to:
- agreed acts;
- the validation of any agreed acts;
- any surrender; and
- the undertaking of the ILUA project.
Surrender
If Adani or a Third Party seeks an approval which cannot be granted unless a surrender occurs, then where the Agreement has been registered, surrender will occur immediately "before the approval is granted in relation to any native title rights and interest that exist within any part of the surrender area".
Adani mus also notify the Juru PBC of each surrender within ten (10) business days and provide a copy of the notification to the State at the same time.
The surrender is intended to extinguish any Native Title rights and interests.
Right to Negotiate
s24EB(1)(c) of the Native Title Act is not intended to apply to any agreed acts or any surrender from the registration date.
Agreed Acts
The Agreed Acts include:
- grant of any approvals with respect to the ILUA Project;
- undertaking any acts pursuant to approvals considered by Adani or a Third Party to be "necessary or desirable for, or incidental to, the undertaking of the ILUA Project";
- "the making, amendment or repeal of legislation, regulations, by-laws, ordinances (and similar acts) necessary or desirable for, or incidental to, the ILUA Project; and
(d) the validation of any of the acts referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c) above that take place
after the Commencement Date and prior to Registration,
and, for the avoidance of doubt, the Agreed Acts do not include:
(e) the Surrender or the Taking of Native Title; or
(f) any compulsory acquisition of Native Title Rights and Interests in relation to any part of the ILUA Area."
ILUA Project
The ILUA Project includes:
- planning, design, development, construction, operation and maintenance of the Rail Line;
- planning, design, development, construction, operation and maintenance of infrastructure or other facilties that Adani or any Third Party reasonably considered necessary or desirable;
- any acts incidental to or components of the operations.
Native Title in the ILUA Area
The Agreement Area includes all lands and waters within the Juru Determination Area. Juru Country is north from the Haughton River to Mt Gordon south of Bowen, east to the Barrier Reef and west to the Leichardt Range in North Queensland. This also include Cape Upstart National Park over which the Juru people hold native title rights. | |