Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self management) Act 1978. Country/Territory Australia Document type Legislation Date 1978 (2018) Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act to empower Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders who live on reserves in Queensland to manage and control their own affairs. Subject Land & soil Keyword Land tenure Traditional rights/customary rights Public land Indigenous peoples Community management Geographical area Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific Abstract This Act empowers the Minister to, upon request of the Council for an Aboriginal Reserve, declare the reserve to be an Islander Reserve to which this Act applies (sect. 5). Section 6 provides for the Declaration of Aboriginal Councils or Island Councils for the purposes of this Act. The Council for an Aboriginal Reserve to which this Act applies, or for an Islander Reserve to which this Act applies, shall manage and control the affairs of the Aboriginal community or the Islander community, as the case may be, residing on the Reserve (sect. 7). The Commonwealth may make available to the Council for a Reserve to which this Act applies, or for a Community to which this Act applies, for the purpose of enabling the Council to perform its functions, any interest in land acquired by or otherwise vested in the Commonwealth (sect. 15). Full text English Website www.austlii.edu.au