Lands Acquisition Act 1978

(1) Where a person is served with a notice of proposal under section 42A, the person may:

(a) if the person was served under section 42A(1)(b) – within 2 months after the date of the notice of proposal or within the further period allowed in writing by the Minister; or

(b) in any other case – within 2 months after the date of publication of the notice of acquisition or within the further period allowed in writing by the Minister,

lodge with the Minister comments on the acquisition.

(a) the proposal is for the acquisition of native title rights and interests (if any); and

(b) there are no registered native title claimants or registered native title bodies corporate in relation to any of the land the subject of the proposal,

the representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body or bodies in relation to that land who were served with a copy of the notice of proposal under section 42A(1)(c) may, within 2 months after the date of the notice of proposal or such further period as the Minister in writing allows, lodge in writing with the Minister comments on the acquisition.

(3) Subject to section 89A, compensation is payable to a person whose interest in land is acquired under this Part whether or not comments on the acquisition were lodged under subsection (1) or (2).