What is the relationship between the Native Title Act and the CATSI Act? How is it managed?
Under the Native Title Act, most native title bodies, including PBCs or prescribed bodies corporate (also called registered native title bodies corporate or RNTBCs) that hold or manage native title, must incorporate under the ACA Act. This will continue under the new legislation. The CATSI Act makes sure that when a person has a responsibility under the Native Title Act it does not conflict with what they are required to do under the CATSI Act. This means many provisions have been tailored for directors, managers and employees of native title bodies. There is an ORAC paper—‘Interaction between the CATSI Act and the Native Title Act’—as well as a Native Title fact sheet available on the ORIC website www.oric.gov.au.
