AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ABORIGINES WELFARE ORDINANCE 1954

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 8 of 1954

	This Ordinance is to provide for the welfare and control of aborigines, particularly those at the Wreck Bay reserve.  It follows the lines of the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Act, 1909-1943 and has been approved by the Aborigines Welfare Board of New South Wales, to which powers under the Ordinance will be delegated.