Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 - SECT 23JA

    If:

  (a)   a previous exclusive possession act or a previous non - exclusive possession act took place before the establishment of a particular State, the Jervis Bay Territory, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory; and

  (b)   the act affected land or waters that, when this section commences, form part of the State or Territory;

then, for the purposes of this Division, the act is taken to be attributable to:

  (c)   the State; or

  (d)   if the Territory is the Jervis Bay Territory--the Commonwealth; or

  (e)   if the Territory is the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory--that Territory.

Note:   The meaning given to the expression attributable by section   239 will apply for the purposes of this Division to all other previous exclusive and non - exclusive possession acts.