This legislation has been repealed.
(1) For the purposes of section 14A, a
"diligent inquiry" to identify a person is the taking of the following actions:(a) the searching of the following registers:(i) the Register kept under the Real Property Act 1900 , and(ii) the General Register of Deeds kept under the Conveyancing Act 1919 , and(iii) the National Native Title Register kept under the Commonwealth Native Title Act,(b) placing, on a board or other structure in a conspicuous place on the land concerned, a notice:(i) stating that it is intended to declare the land as part of a marine park, and(ii) inviting the owner of the land to contact the Authority at a specified address,(c) publishing a notice referred to in paragraph (b) in a newspaper circulating in the vicinity of the land concerned and in a newspaper circulating generally in New South Wales.
(2) For the purposes of section 14A, a person who is a native title holder is taken to have been unable, after diligent inquiry, to be found or identified if:(a) notice of the proposed proclamation is served by the relevant Ministers in accordance with section 44B, and(b) at the expiration of the period of 4 months commencing on service of the notice, the person is neither a registered native title claimant nor a registered native title body corporate in relation to the land concerned.