NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 - SECT 78 Assistance in relation to proceedings
NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 - SECT 78
Assistance in relation to proceedingsNative Title Registrar may assist applicants, respondents etc.
(1) The Native Title Registrar may give such assistance as he or she considers reasonable to:
(a) help people prepare applications and accompanying material and to help them, at any stage of a proceeding, in matters related to the proceeding; and
(b) help other people, at any stage of a proceeding, in matters related to the proceeding.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the assistance may include:
(a) providing research services; or
(b) conducting searches of registers or other records of current or former interests in land or waters.
No assistance to search own registers etc.
(3) Unless the Native Title Registrar considers there are
special reasons for doing so, the Registrar must not give assistance to the
Commonwealth, a State or a Territory by way of conducting searches of
registers or other records maintained by the Commonwealth, the State or the
Territory.