The Land Councils fail to assist residents ("Traditional Owners" and others) as they still fail to provide conventional and valid tenancy leases...
Extract of the Commonwealth's legislation amended 2022
Aboriginal Land Rights (NorthernTerritory) Act 1976
No. 191, 1976
Compilation No. 46
Compilation date: 13 December 2022 Includes amendments up to: Act No. 132, 2021 Registered: 19 December 2022 Authorised Version C2022C00364 registered 19/12/2022
19 Dealings etc. with interests in land by Land Trusts
(1) Except as provided by this section or section 19A or 20, a LandTrust must not deal with or dispose of, or agree to deal with ordispose of:
(a) any estate or interest in land vested in it; or
(b) the land described under the heading “JABIRU” in Part 4 ofSchedule 1.
(1A) Subsection (1) does not prevent a dealing with, or disposal of, anestate or interest in land, being land to which the condition referredto in subsection 12(2B) or (2C) relates, in accordance with anagreement entered into in compliance with that condition.
(2) With the consent, in writing, of the Minister, and at the direction,in writing, of the relevant Land Council, a Land Trust may, subjectto subsection (7), grant an estate or interest in land vested in it toan Aboriginal or an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islandercorporation:
(a) for use for residential purposes by: (i) the Aboriginal and his or her family; or (ii) an employee of the Aboriginal or the corporation, as thecase may be;
(b) for use in the conduct of a business by the Aboriginal or thecorporation, not being a business in which a person who isnot an Aboriginal has an interest that entitles him or her to ashare in, or to a payment that varies in accordance with, theprofits of the business; or
(c) for any community purpose of the Aboriginal community orgroup for whose benefit the Land Trust holds the land.
