This Act authorizes the Department of Public Safety to close public beaches during potentially hazardous circumstances. Beaches can be closed in case of natural disasters such as typhoons and other tropical storms and abnormal tidal waves and other extreme climatic or environmental conditions. No person shall use any public beach when a notice of closure has been published.

This Chapter defines certain matters relative to the recording of land.

This Act makes provision for the planning of the Australian Capital Territory and the management of land in the Territory.

The Act declares customary law with respect to specified domains in the Ralik Chain, and provides that there shall be four separate domains and titles and regulates representation of the domains in local councils and the national conventions.