Stated purpose:
The purpose of this Act is to excise certain areas of land from State forest and timber reserves and other reserves; to cancel the purpose of timber reserves and to cancel other reserves; to reserve land for the purpose of national parks, conservation parks, a nature reserve and another reserve; and to effect certain other changes to land. The Act will create ten new national parks, two new conservation parks, a new nature reserve and a new Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 (CALM Act) section 5(1)(h) reserve, and make additions to the existing Mount Frankland National Park, in Western Australia’s south-west
forests.
Native title implications:
The Act specifies that it will have no effect on native title rights and interests.
Relevant provisions:
s 6 Native title rights and interests
(1) In this section —
affect has the meaning given to that term in the NTA section 227;
native title rights and interests has the meaning given to that term in the NTA section 223;
NTA means the Native Title Act 1993 of the Commonwealth.
(2) Nothing done by or under this Act operates to affect any native title rights and interests.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to the extent that the effect on those rights and interests is valid by the operation of, or by anything done under, the NTA or a law of this State.