Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983

A Local Aboriginal Land Council must prepare and implement a community, land and business plan.

A Local Aboriginal Land Council must, within 9 months after the holding of an election of Board members for the Council, approve or amend the community, land and business plan for the Council that was in force immediately before the election.

A Local Aboriginal Land Council preparing a community, land and business plan must consult with the following persons—

members of the Council,

persons who have a cultural association with the land within the Council’s area,

any other persons required to be consulted by the regulations or a policy of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council.

A Local Aboriginal Land Council may amend a community, land and business plan.

The provisions of this Division apply to any proposed amendment in the same way as they apply to the preparation and approval of a plan.

The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council may exempt a Local Aboriginal Land Council wholly or partly from the requirement to prepare a community, land and business plan, if the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council is satisfied compliance is not appropriate.

For the purposes of this section, a person has a cultural association with land if the person is an Aboriginal owner in relation to land within the area of the Local Aboriginal Land Council concerned or is a person of a class prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.