Public places etc. on Aboriginal land
59A Public places etc. on Aboriginal land
Where by or under a law of the Territory a right, privilege, obligation or liability is expressed or implied to be acquired, accrued or incurred by reference to a public place, public street, public road, place of public resort or other place, however described, open to or used by the public or to which the public has access, whether as of right or on the payment of a fee or other charge, that reference includes, and shall be deemed always to have included, any place which but for the fact that it was on Aboriginal land within the meaning of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern
Territory) Act 1976 of the Commonwealth, would have been included in such a reference, and even though that Act of the Commonwealth or the Aboriginal Land Act 1978 limits the persons or classes of persons who may enter and remain on that Aboriginal land.
For the purposes of a law of the Territory referred to in subsection (1), the persons who are not precluded by the
Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 of the
Commonwealth or the Aboriginal Land Act 1978 from entering or remaining on Aboriginal land, or who are on Aboriginal land whether or not they are entitled by those Acts, or either of them, to enter or remain on Aboriginal land, are capable of constituting, and shall be deemed always to have been capable of constituting, a section of the public in relation to that land.
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