Aboriginal Land Act 1991

The chief executive must keep a register of entities that hold Aboriginal land (the Aboriginal land holding entity register).

The register must contain the following information for each entity—

the entity’s name, address for the service of documents and contact telephone number;

a description of the Aboriginal land held by the entity.

If the entity is a land trust, the register must also contain all the following information about the land trust—

the names and addresses of all the current members of the land trust;

the name of each member of the land trust’s executive committee, and the position held by the member;

a contact telephone number for the chairperson and secretary of the land trust;

a copy of the land trust’s adopted rules;

copies of annual financial statements and audit reports the chief executive receives from the land trust under this Act;

a statement about whether or not the land trust has, for each financial year, operated in compliance with the Act.

Note—Under section 258, the chief executive must record in the register whether or not a land trust has operated in compliance with the Act.

The chief executive may keep the register in the form the chief executive considers appropriate, including, for example, in electronic form.