Validation by agreement of future acts attributable to State
32B Validation by agreement of future acts attributable to State
If—
an indigenous land use agreement to which the State is a party provides for the retrospective validation or conditional validation of a future act, or a class of future acts, attributable to the State;
and
the requirements of section 24EBA(1) of the NTA are satisfied in relation to the agreement, the future act or class of future acts is valid and is taken always to have been valid.1
In this section—
future act does not include an intermediate period act.
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Note—
1 See sections 24EBA(1) and (3) NTA. Indigenous land use agreements are defined in sections 24BA, 24CA and 24DA NTA. A future act is defined in section 233 NTA. An act attributable to the State is defined in section 239 NTA. Valid is defined in section 253 NTA.
Section 24EBA(1)
NTA requires—
• details of the agreement to be on the Register of Indigenous Land Use
Agreements (see Part 8A NTA); and
• any person (other than the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory) who is or may become liable under the agreement or otherwise to pay compensation in relation to the act or class of acts to be a party to the agreement.
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