Native Title Legislation Amendment Act 2021 (6 of 2021)

Schedule 1   Role of the applicant

Part 2   Applicant decision making

Native Title Act 1993

42   Subsection 30(4)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

Replacing a native title party

(4) If:

(a) an applicant (the old applicant ) in relation to a claimant application is a native title party; and

(b) the old applicant is replaced as the applicant in relation to the claimant application by another applicant (the new applicant ); and

(c) the new applicant becomes a registered native title claimant;

the new applicant also replaces the old applicant as the native title party.