Agreement area: The agreement area covers about 2.9km and is located approximately 45 km east of the town of Kununurra (WA) an 17 km east of the NT/WA state border. The Extract from the Register of Indigenous Land Use Agreements describes the area subject to this ILUA, per annexure A of the agreement, as comprising the entirety of NT Portion 4984 appearing on
Survey Plan S96/281. (See annexure A attached below under documents).
Commencement: The agreement is binding from the date when signed by all the parties. It has effect as an ILUA, as in relation to the agreed acts, from its registration on 24 April 2018.
Native Title Provisions: Right to negotiate The parties agree that the right to negotiate provisions of the Native Title Act (Cth) do not apply to the acts consented to under the agreement.
Extinguishment The parties agree that the non-extinguishment principle applies, meaning that any of the activities authorised by this agreement which may be inconsistent with native title rights and interests do not extinguish those rights and interests, instead those native title rights and interests will be revived when the activities have ended.
Future act provisions Dependent upon an Association or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Corporation (the Community Living Area Body) gaining approval for holding the area as a community living area, the parties agree to the doing of the following acts: - the Community Living Area Body (the Top End (Default /CLA) Aboriginal Corporation) acquiring the area under s 46(1A) of the Lands Acquisition Act (NT); and
- the Minister of Lands, Planning and Environment granting an estate in fee simple in the area to the Community Living Area Body (the Top End (Default /CLA) Aboriginal Corporation).
Native Title in the Agreement Area: This agreement is located within the native title determination area of the Federal Court of Australia ('FCA') proceeding Carlton v Northern Territory of Australia [2011] FCA 576. (FCA File No.: NTD38/2010, NNTT File No.: 2011/002).
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