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TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER LAND ACT 1991 - SECT 10

10 DOGIT land

(1) DOGIT land is land (other than a road or prescribed DOGIT land) that, at the beginning of the enactment day, was—

(a) granted in trust under the Land Act 1962 for the benefit of Torres Strait Islander inhabitants or for the purpose of a Torres Strait Islander reserve; or
(b) within the external boundaries of an area of such land and—
(i) reserved and set apart for, or dedicated to, a public purpose under the Land Act 1962; or
(ii) land that has become unallocated State land by way of resumption for a public purpose within the meaning of the Land Act 1962; or
(iii) subject to a lease granted under the Land Holding Act; or
(iv) subject to a special lease granted under the Land Act 1962; or
(v) the subject of an application under the Land Holding Act, section 5, that had been approved by the trustee council, or approved on appeal by the appeal tribunal, under that Act, but for which a lease under that Act has not been granted.

(2) DOGIT land includes land within the external boundaries of land mentioned in subsection (1)(a) that has, since the enactment day, ceased to be a road if the land was or is—

(a) declared by regulation to be transferable land; or
(b) included in a new deed of grant issued under the Land Act, section 358 for the land mentioned in subsection (1)(a), because of the closing of a road under section 109(2)(b) or 109B of that Act.

(3) Also, DOGIT land includes land within the external boundaries of land mentioned in subsection (1)(a) if—

(a) the land was the subject of an application under the Land Holding Act, section 5, that was approved by the trustee council, or approved on appeal by the appeal tribunal, under that Act after the enactment day; and
(b) a lease under that Act has not been granted for the land.

(4) DOGIT land does not include land within the external boundaries of land mentioned in subsection (1)(a) if the land—

(a) is a road that became a road after the enactment day and before the commencement of this subsection; or
(b) becomes a road after the commencement.


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