 The Act recognised that these lands were inhabitable, and made provision for colonisation, government, and the funding of the new settlement on these lands.The Act states that the land specified by the Act is "waste" and "unoccupied" (this statement was subsequently modified slightly by the Letters Patent establishing the Province of South Australia in 1836, which acknowledged some rights and occupation by Aboriginal people).The Act specifically provided for a limited independence of Government, whereby all laws made by the government in South Australia were to be presented to the King-in-Council in the United Kingdom.