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However, the main technical results obtained so far concern the description of suitably deformed relativistic symmetry transformation rules, whereas the properties of the associated Noether charges, which are crucial for the phenomenology, are still poorly understood. Here, we tackle this problem focusing on first-quantized particles described within a Hamiltonian framework and using as a toy model the so-called \u201cspatial kappa-Minkowski noncommutative spacetime\u201d, where all the relevant conceptual challenges are present but, as here shown, in technically manageable fashion. 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