Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Bill 2017 introduced to address the McGlade decision

On 15 February 2017, the Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Bill 2017 was tabled in the House of Representatives.

The bill was introduced to address the decision of the Federal Court in McGlade v Native Title Registrar [2017] FCFCA 10 handed down on 2 February 2017 ( see previous alert). This decision created uncertainty around the validity of the registration of Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) that had not been signed by all of the registered native title claimants for the relevant native title claim group. That uncertainty raised security of title concerns for grants of mining and other tenure consented to in the ILUAs.

The bill was urgently introduced to cure that security of title problem.