They had filed the suit asking that NIWA be declared as the body statutorily empowered to manage, control and
regulate land interest within 100 meters of all declared Federal Waterways in Nigeria, and that the license on the right of way granted to them by NIWA is valid and subsisting.
Not exact matches
There is no notion of sovereign power being exercised so as to
regulate or curtail Indigenous
interests in
land.
Fourth, the requirement of NTA s223 (1)(c), that the rights and
interests in relation to the
land or waters must be recognised by the common law of Australia has been interpreted to exclude important rights to sea country where these rights could have been recognised albeit
regulated or impaired to allow other non-Indigenous
interests to be enjoyed.
In light of Indigenous peoples» previous attempts to access their rights and
interests in
lands and waters for commercial use, it will be
interesting to monitor and assess how and whether Indigenous peoples are able to utilise these allocations and to what extent this access and utilisation will be
regulated.
Provide a legal entity through which native title holders can conduct business with government, and others,
interested in accessing or
regulating native title
lands and waters.
the ability of native title holders to protect their native title rights and
interests, to
regulate the use of and activity on native title
land, and