Registered Native Title Bodies Corporate Legislation Amendment Regulations 2021 (F2021L00292)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Native Title (Prescribed Bodies Corporate) Regulations 1999

25   Paragraph 4A(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(a) the prescribed body corporate must consult the common law holders for whom the prescribed body corporate holds native title rights and interests in trust or for whom it is an agent prescribed body corporate (the initial holders ) and obtain their consent:

(i) if there is a process of decision-making that, under the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander traditional laws and customs of the initial holders, must be followed in relation to the giving of the consent - in accordance with that process; or

(ii) if subparagraph (i) does not apply - in accordance with the process of decision-making agreed to, or adopted, by the initial holders in relation to giving the consent; and