“An Act to amend the Community Services (Aborigines) Act 1984 and the Community Services (Torres Strait) Act 1984” (Act no. 53/1999). This act details the degree of intervention the State of Queensland can make into Aboriginal and Island Councils, as well as the jurisdiction, financial support, regulation and running of Aboriginal or Island Councils. As…
“An Act to amend the Community Services (Aborigines) Act 1984 and Community Services (Torres Strait) Act 1984″(Act no. 49/2001). This act amends both the Community Services (Aborigines) Act 1984 (Act no.51/1984) and the Community Services (Torres Strait) Act 1984 (Act no.52/1984). This details the jurisdiction and powers of Aboriginal and Island Councils in the State…
“An Act to provide for support, administrative services and assistance for communities resident in Torres Strait or deemed so to be and for management of lands for use by those communities and for related purposes”(Act no. 52/1984). This act focused upon Island Councils and Boards as well as ‘assistance’ provided by the State to people…
“An Act to amend the Community Services (Aborigines) Act 1984-1985 in certain particulars” (Act no.43/1986). This act amends the definition of ‘Aborigine’ made in the Community Services (Aborigine) Act 1984 (Act no.51/1984) to include people living in an area “as part of a community of Aborigines’”. The act also discusses the Aboriginal Councils and the…
This act has the full title “An Act to amend the Aborigines Act 1971 and the Torres Strait Islander Act 1971, each in certain particulars” (Act no.80/1974). This act amends the Aborigines Act 1971(Act no.59/1971) and Torres Strait Islanders Act 1971 (Act no.60/1971). The amendments primarily refer to the termination of property management by Indigenous…
This act has the full title “An Act to amend the Aborigines Act 1971-1974, the Torres Strait Islanders Act 1971-1974 and The Aboriginal Relics Preservation Act of 1967 each in certain particulars”(Act no.30/1975). This amendment act omits and replaces the words Island Affairs with Islanders Advancement and replaces the Departmental name Conservation, Marine and Aboriginal…
This act has the full title “An Act to amend the Aborigines Act 1971-1975 and the Torres Strait Islanders Act 1971-1975 each in certain particulars” (Act no. 3/1979).This amendment act relates mainly to the establishment, running, responsibilities and powers of the Aboriginal and Islander Commission. This act was repealed by Statute Law Revision Act (No.2)…
This act with the full title “An Act to amend the Children’s Services Act 1965-1978 in certain particulars”(Act no.75/1979) details the registration of child day care centres, and the responsibilities of people employed under the Children’s Services Act 1965 (Act no.42/1965) to disclose information that ‘is likely to be material to detecting, preventing or dealing…
This act has the full title “An Act to amend the Children’s Services Act 1965-1989 in certain particulars and the Young Offenders (Interstate Transfer) Act 1987 in a certain particular”(Act no.116/1989). It amends the Children’s Services Act 1964 (42/1964) in particular relation to Community service orders made against children found guilty of crimes by a…
This act has the full title “An Act to provide for support, administrative services and assistance for Aboriginal communities resident in Queensland and for management of lands for use by those communities and for related purposes” (Act no.51/1984). Between 2007 and 2008 the equivalent legislation relating to Torres Strait Islander Peoples was merged with this…
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