Victorian Current Acts

TRADITIONAL OWNER SETTLEMENT ACT 2010 - SECT 82

    (1)     A natural resource agreement under this Part may provide for members of the traditional owner group who are bound by the agreement to carry out any of the following activities on land that is subject to the agreement—

        (a)     access, occupy and use the land;

        (b)     as to a natural resource on or depending on the land—

              (i)     access, hunt, take, use or interfere with the natural resource; or

              (ii)     cut, dig up or remove the natural resource; or

              (iii)     sell or give away any of the natural resource; or

              (iv)     any other similar activity in relation to the natural resource;

        (c)     take or use water from a waterway or bore;

        (d)     enter, remain on and camp on the land;

        (e)     gather together to conduct cultural activities on the land;

Examples

Examples of cultural activities include public meetings, festivals, entertainment activities, sporting events, recreational activities, ceremonies, demonstrations and classes.

        (f)     possess or use any animal or any equipment, vehicle or other thing on the land for the purpose of carrying out an activity specified in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e).

    (2)     For the purpose of carrying out an agreed activity a natural resource may be—

        (a)     approached, damaged, destroyed, fished, killed, injured, obstructed, released or otherwise interfered
with; or

        (b)     possessed, kept, moved or processed; or

        (c)     felled, ringbarked or sapringed; or

        (d)     otherwise similarly dealt with.

S. 83 substituted by No. 67/2016 s. 24.