Section 7
Aboriginal reserves
of Aboriginal Peoples Act 1954
The State Authority may, by notification in the Gazette, declare any area exclusively inhabited by aborigines to be an aboriginal reserve:
Provided—
(i)
when it appears unlikely that the aborigines will remain permanently in that place it shall not be declared an aboriginal reserve but shall form part of an aboriginal area; and
(ii)
an aboriginal reserve may be constituted within an aboriginal area.
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(2)
Within an aboriginal reserve—
(i)
no land shall be declared a Malay Reservation under any written law relating to Malay Reservations;
(ii)
no land shall be declared a sanctuary or reserve under any written law relating to the protection of wild animals and birds;
(iii)
no land shall be declared a reserved forest under any written law relating to forests;
(iv)
no land shall be alienated, granted, leased or otherwise disposed of except to aborigines of the aboriginal communities normally resident within the reserve; and
(v)
no temporary occupation of any land shall be permitted under any written law relating to land.
(3)
The State Authority may in like manner revoke wholly or in part or vary any declaration of an aboriginal reserve made under subsection (1).