Aboriginal Land Act 1991

As soon as practicable after a claim is referred to the Land Tribunal, the tribunal must comply with this section.

The tribunal must cause copies of the application to be made available for public inspection at offices of the tribunal during ordinary working hours and at such other places as it considers appropriate.

The tribunal must publish notice of the claim in the gazette, a newspaper circulating throughout the State and such regional newspapers as the tribunal considers appropriate.

The tribunal must give notice of the claim, by letter or such other means as it considers more effective, to each person that it is aware is or may be an interested person.

A notice under subsection (3) or (4) must include a statement to the effect that—

copies of the application are available for public inspection at places, and during times, specified in the notice; and

interested persons may, within the period specified in the notice, apply to the tribunal to be made a party to the proceeding for the hearing of the claim; and

any other group of Aboriginal people may, within that period, make a claim for the whole or part of the land the subject of the claim or for such an area and additional area of claimable land.

The period specified in a notice for the purposes of subsection (5)(b) must be a period of not less than 60 days after the publication of notice of the claim in the gazette.