New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1974 - SECT 71J

71J Minister may negotiate with Aboriginal negotiating panel and Aboriginal Land Councils

(1) The Minister may enter into negotiations for the purposes of this Division with an Aboriginal negotiating panel appointed in accordance with this Division and--

(a) one or more Local Aboriginal Land Councils whose members have a cultural association with Schedule 14 lands, or

(b) the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council on behalf of one or more Local Aboriginal Land Councils referred to in paragraph (a), or

(c) the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council on its own behalf, or

(d) one or more Aboriginal Land Councils that have made a claim for lands to which section 36A of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 applies.

(2) The Minister may enter into negotiations with one Local Aboriginal Land Council whose members have a cultural association with Schedule 14 lands with which members of one or more other Local Aboriginal Land Councils also have a cultural association only if--

(a) the members of each of those Councils, and

(b) the Aboriginal negotiating panel,

consent to the Minister negotiating with that Local Aboriginal Land Council.