Sentences with phrase «amendment act»

In its submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund [35] inquiry into CERD and the Native Title Amendment Act 1998, the federal Attorney - General's Department elaborated further on the meaning of non-discrimination under the Convention:

Consistency of the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 with Australia's international obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, Thursday February 2000, Canberra page NT 10 - 11.

Previous Social Justice Commissioners have reported on, and recommended reforms to, significant legislative developments such as the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (Cth)(also known as «the Wik amendments»).

Native Title reforms which were announced in 2005 have resulted in the Native Title Amendment Act 2007 and the Native title Amendment (Technical Amendments) Act 2007.

The Native Title Amendment Act commenced on 18 September 2009.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Submission 10 (a) to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title inquiry into CERD and the Native Title Amendment Act 1998, p8.

Commonwealth Parliament passes the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act (2005) which abolishes ATSIC.

In its submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title inquiry into CERD and the Native Title Amendment Act 1998, the Attorney - General's Department elaborated the government's position as follows:

In 2008, the Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment Act 2008 (Cth) included a process for land owners and the government to agree on an amount to be paid by the Australian Government for the five - year leases.

Third, in my submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Native Title inquiry into CERD and the Native Title Amendment Act 1998, I argue that the government's arguments about a margin of appreciation misunderstand the scope of the Committee's interpretation of the meaning of racial discrimination.

Note: In its submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title the Attorney - General's Department stated that it is for «the Parliament to decide whether substantive equality was to be provided and, if it was, what that encompassed»: Quoted in Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title, CERD and the Native Title Amendment Act 1998, op.cit, p9.

Under those subsections, the amendments of this Act made by the Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 1992 did not extend to a State unless a Proclamation was in force in relation to the State.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to an order made before the commencement of section 38 of the Family Law Amendment Act 1983 if the order was expressed to continue in force throughout the life of the person for whose benefit the order was made or for a period that had not expired at the death of the person liable to make payments under the order and, in that case, the order is binding on the legal personal representative of the deceased person.

(3B) Despite subsection (3), if, whether before or after the commencement of Schedule 2 to the Family Law Amendment Act 2000:

(b) that continued to be registered immediately before the commencement of the Family Law Amendment Act 2003.

(3A) Notwithstanding subsection (3), where, whether before or after the commencement of section 21 of the Family Law Amendment Act 1983:

Made under s 48 of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Act 1989 (the Act) and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Amendment Act 2016.

[6] Native Title Amendment Act (No 1) 2010 (Cth), Native Title Amendment Act 2009 (Cth).

a person who continues to be a member of the Institute under the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Amendment Act 2016.

[101] The Native Title Amendment Act 2009 (Cth) clarifies that the Court can make orders that reflect agreements made by the parties.

The Amendment Act amends the Native Title Act to allow for, and encourage, broader negotiated agreements between native title claimants and other parties.

The Native Title Amendment Act 2009 (Cth)(the Native Title Amendment Act) commenced on 18 September 2009.

2.5 That the Australian, state and territory governments commit to only using the new future act process relating to public housing and infrastructure (introduced by the Native Title Amendment Act (No 1) 2010 (Cth)-RRB- as a measure of last resort.

I made a number of recommendations to improve the amendments to the Native Title Act under the Native Title Amendment Act (No 1) 2010 (Cth).

We have voluntarily opted to be subject to the obligations of a public authority under Part 5A of the Human Rights Amendment Act 2008 (ACT).

2.6 That the Australian Government begin a process to establish the consultation requirements that an action body must follow under the new future act process introduced by the Native Title Amendment Act (No 1) 2010 (Cth).

The aim of the Amendment Act is to amend the Native Title Act to «contribute to broader, more flexible and quicker negotiated settlements of native title claims» which will «result in better outcomes for participants in the native title system».

Governments and NTRBs have a different view on the impact the Amendment Act has had on the resources of participants.

This Bill was almost identical to the Amendment Act (No 1), which was introduced following the election.

The Amendment Act also extended the powers of the Federal Court to make orders to give effect to the terms of an agreement that involve matters other than native title.

[139] For example, the NTNER Amendment Act made some minor changes to the provisions of the NTNER Act concerning the five - year leases.

26 Commonwealth Parliament, Sixteenth Report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund: CERD and the Native Title Amendment Act 1998, Canberra, June 2000, para 3.7.

54 Commonwealth Attorney - General's Department, Submission to the PJC Inquiry: Consistency of the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 with Australia's obligations under ICERD, Submission 24.

37 Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund, Consistency of the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 with Australia's international obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 2001 («PJC Report»), pp 38 - 48.

A / 54/18, para 9 where the absence of meaningful participation in the amendment process preceding the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (Cth) was cited by the CERD Committee as inconsistent with article 5 (c) of CERD which prohibits racial discrimination in relation to the right of political participation.

70 Commonwealth Attorney - General's Department, Submission to the PJC Inquiry: Consistency of the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 with Australia's obligations under ICERD, Submission 24, Part II, p21 at [91].

It may be that, under those provisions, a rather broader base could be built for drawing inferences about past practices than can be built since the 1998 Amendment Act came into operation.

8 On 9 December 1999 the Senate referred to the PJC for inquiry and report; (a) whether the finding of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) that the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 is consistent with Australia's international legal obligations, in particular, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, is sustainable on the weight of the informed opinion, (b) what amendments are required to the Act, and what processes of consultation must be followed in effecting those amendments, to ensure that Australia's international obligations are complied with; and (c) whether dialogue with the CERD on the Act would assist in establishing a better informed basis for amendment to the Act.

The changes made by the Technical Amendment Act have only been touched on briefly in this report as they are outside of the reporting period.

A primary aim of the Amendment Act was to make it easier to grant long - term leases on Indigenous land.

The Education Legislation Amendment Act 2008 maintains commitments to initiatives such as the Sporting Chance program, as well as supporting the expansion of intensive literacy and numeracy programs for Indigenous students, professional development support to assist teachers to develop Individual Learning Plans for their Indigenous students, an additional 200 teachers in the Northern Territory and the provision of three new boarding college facilities for Indigenous secondary school students in the Northern Territory.

The Amendment Act makes it easier for the Queensland Government to exclude particular areas from transfer by declaring them to be not transferable.

The Amendment Act also makes it easier for the Government to compulsorily acquire Indigenous land.

The Native Title Amendment Act of 1998 also authorised the states and territories to replace the «right to negotiate» with a lesser «right to be consulted» in particular circumstances — the states would not have been able to do this without the authorisation provided by the Commonwealth Parliament.

Bill 34, the Children's Law Reform Amendment Act, which was implemented in December, recognizes their role and allows them special considerations when granting access.

In addition to making reforms to long - term leasing, the Amendment Act makes a number of other changes to Indigenous land, including:

The Amendment Act allows for Indigenous freehold and DOGIT land to be acquired, and a shire lease to be resumed, by a construction authority for a relevant public purpose.

As a result of changes made by the Amendment Act, transferable land in relation to which there has been a determination of native title can also be granted to the PBC.

On 9 December 2000 the Senate referred to the PJC for inquiry and report; (a) whether the finding of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) that the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 is consistent with Australia's international legal obligations, in particular, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, is sustainable on the weight of informed opinion; (b) what the amendments are required to the Act, and what processes of consultation must be followed in effecting those amendments, to ensure that Australia's international obligations are complied with; and (c) whether dialogue with the CERD on the Act would assist in establishing a better informed basis for amendment to the Act.

The Amendment Act makes a new set of rules to make it easier to grant leases on Indigenous freehold land, DOGIT land and Aboriginal reserve land.